Legal Opinion
Union Hardware Co. v. Plume & Atwood Manufacturing Co.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Decided December 30, 1889PublishedCited by 11 opinions
Action to recover for goods sold by the defendant corporation for the plaintiffs upon a commission; brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County, and tried to the court before Andrews, J. Facts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiffs and appeal by the defendant. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtPrentice, J.
The defendant was a joint stock corporation whose purposes and powers were by its articles defined to be as follows :—
“The purpose for which said corporation is formed is the following, to wit: to manufacture metals of which copper, spelter or nickel, or like substances, form the whole or parts thereof, and to manufacture said metals or substances into articles made wholly or in part therefrom; to buy, sell, own and deal in any and all real and personal property necessary or convenient for the prosecution of said business; and generally to do all things incidental to said business and to the…
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