State v. Business Men's Club
Missouri Court of Appeals
Quo Warranto. (1) The contests staged under the auspices of respondent corporation were prize fights. State v. Patton, 64 N. E. 850; Seville v. State of Ohio, 15 L. R. A. (Old) 516; Commonwealth ex rel.
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Quo Warranto. (1) The contests staged under the auspices of respondent corporation were prize fights. State v. Patton, 64 N. E. 850; Seville v. State of Ohio, 15 L. R. A. (Old) 516; Commonwealth ex rel. Pratt v. McGovern, 66 L. R. A., 280; State v. Purtell, 43 Pac. 783; People v. Pioncan, 80 N. Y. Supp. 929. (2) The respondent, “The Business Men’s Athletic Club,” is a mere subterfuge and a scheme organized and conducted for the purpose of evading the law which prohibits the giving of public sparring or boxing exhibitions. State ex inf. Hadley y. Rose Hill Pastime Athletic Club, 121 Mo. App.…
1Opinion of the CourtRobertson, P. J.
The prosecuting attorney of Greene county filed in this court his information alleging that the defendant was organized as a corporation ostensibly under the provisions of Chapter 33, Article 10, Revised Statutes of 1909, authorizing the incorporation of associations for benevolent, religious, educational and scientific purposes, and charged that the respondent had grossly perverted and misused its charter authority, franchises and privileges, and unlawfully usurped franchises and privileges not granted it by the laws of the State of Missouri, especially in that it had not pursued the objects…
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