Howe v. Keeler
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Trespass, to recover for certain machinery and cloths attached by the defendant as a deputy sheriff, as the property of the Bridgeport Woolen Mills, a corporation, in a suit brought by one Henry Hoag against the corporation.
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Trespass, to recover for certain machinery and cloths attached by the defendant as a deputy sheriff, as the property of the Bridgeport Woolen Mills, a corporation, in a suit brought by one Henry Hoag against the corporation. The plaintiffs, who were partners under the name of J. C. Howe & Company, claimed the property under a contract with the corporation dated April 12, 1855, and a mortgage of the same date; under the provisions of which contract and mortgage, they claimed to have taken possession of the property on the lith day of November, 1856, and to have been in legal possession of the…
1Opinion of the CourtSanford, J.
The due organization of the Bridgeport Woolen Mills, and the election of a board of directors for the management of its concerns on the 4th of April, 1855, were admitted in the argument. And the superior court has found that the persons who appear by the records of the corporation to have been chosen directors, acted as such, and as such carried on the business of the corporation, up to the 11th of November, 1856, and that, on that day, Kelsey, acting in behalf of the corporation, and, as the plaintiffs claimed, under a vote of its directors, delivered the keys of the factory to the…
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