State v. Adams Express Co.

The first tliree of these cases? are against non-resident corporations; the last case against a domestic corporation. The birth-place of the first three is New York state.

On behalf of the first three it was contended on the trial, which was without the aid of a jury, as it was on the motion that was overruled, that they are not corporations, but partnerships or joint stock associations, a species of partnership.

The reason for renewing this question was, as Mr. Maxwell said, that the depositions of Messrs. Seward, Platt and Ledyard had been taken, in the former of which fuller information…