Leonardsville Bank v. . Willard

The only questions which remain in this case, since the jury have found against the defence of usury, are, first, whether the plaintiff proved itself to be a corporation; and secondly, if the proof in that respect was sufficient, whether it was entitled to sue in its corporate name instead of using the name of its president, as it is permitted to do by the general banking law.

1. The plaintiff gave in evidence the original certificate of incorporation, which was made, executed and acknowledged in the year 1856, in conformity with the sixteenth section of the general banking law, and showed, by…