Sunset Oil Co. v. Marshall Oil Co.

The defendant, Marshall Oil Company, appealed from a judgment in an action to quiet title to real property. The plaintiff moved to dismiss the appeal on the ground that the corporate powers of the defendant had been suspended in 1922 by the forfeiture of its charter for non-payment of the corporate license tax, and that it had no power to prosecute an appeal under the powers reserved to it by the statute. The plaintiff presents a certificate of the Secretary of State showing that the defendant had, on March 4, 1922, forfeited its charter for non-payment of its license tax pursuant to the…