State ex rel. Clapp v. Critchett
Supreme Court of Minnesota
The attorney general having filed an information in this court, to ascertain by what warrant the respondents claim to exercise corporate powers under the name of “The Single Men’s Endowment Association of Minnesota,” the respondents answered, setting out the alleged articles of incorporation and the amendments thereto recited in the opinion, under which they claim the right to exercise corporate powers. The matter was heard upon the information and answer.-
1Opinion of the Court
Gilfillan, G. J.
Quo warranto, to ascertain by what authority a certain association styled “The Single Men’s Endowment Association of Minnesota,” acts as and assumes to be a corporation. In 1881 three persons signed, sealed, acknowledged, and filed with the secretary of state articles of association, declaring the purpose of the association to be to endow the wife of each member, when he shall have married, with a sum of money equal to as many dollars as there shall then be members, to be collected from the members by assessment; the fee for admission of members to be $10, the semi-annual *14dues…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Foster v. MoultonSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1886
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