Legal Opinion

Manhattan Trust Co. v. Davis

Montana Supreme Court

Decided October 24, 1899No. 1,133PublishedCited by 2 opinions

Appeal from District Court, Missoula County/ F. II. Woody, Judge. Action by the Manhattan Trust Company, trustee, against Mary M. and Smith Davis. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendants appeal. Statement of the Case. Action to foreclose a certain mortgage.

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Appeal from District Court, Missoula County/ F. II. Woody, Judge. Action by the Manhattan Trust Company, trustee, against Mary M. and Smith Davis. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendants appeal. Statement of the Case. Action to foreclose a certain mortgage. On November 10, 1892, the Northwestern Guaranty Loan Company, a Minnesota corporation, loaned to Mary M. Davis and her husband, appellants herein, $2,350, for which loan the corporation accepted the joint promissory note of appellants for $2,350, dated at Minneapolis, Minn., November 7, 1892, and due three years after date, with interest at…

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Hunt

When the mortgage herein involved was made, and when the note described therein was assigned, the statutory provisions prescribing what formalities should be complied with by foreign corporations before doing business within Montana were included in Chapter XXIV, Fifth Division, Compiled Statutes of 1887; so we have assumed that defendants are correct in their argument that the question for decision involves an interpretation of the statutes just referred to, and that Section 4 of an act to provide the conditions upon which foreign corporations may do business in Montana, approved March 8,…

2Cases cited11 opinions

  1. Huntington v. AttrillSupreme Court of the United States · 1892
  2. United States v. ReisingerSupreme Court of the United States · 1888
  3. Tayloe v. T. & S. SandifordSupreme Court of the United States · 1822
  4. United States v. ChouteauSupreme Court of the United States · 1881
  5. Chase v. CurtisSupreme Court of the United States · 1885

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3Cited by2 opinions

  1. McCaskill v. Union Naval Stores Co.Supreme Court of Florida · 1910
  2. Butler v. PetersMontana Supreme Court · 1922

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