State ex rel. Murphy v. Overton
Nevada Supreme Court
Quo warranto, before the Supreme Court. The facts appear in the opinion. I. The Nevada Benevolent Association never has been a corporation under the laws of this state; because section 3389 of the compiled laws does not authorize the formation of corporations for the purpose of holding or conducting public entertainments or gift enterprises. II.
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Quo warranto, before the Supreme Court. The facts appear in the opinion. I. The Nevada Benevolent Association never has been a corporation under the laws of this state; because section 3389 of the compiled laws does not authorize the formation of corporations for the purpose of holding or conducting public entertainments or gift enterprises. II. The privileges and franchises usurped by the said board of trustees are not .legitimate or legal, because tliey have attempted to usurp a franchise without authority of law, and to do those things which by law they were and are prohibited from doing.…
1Opinion of the Court
By the- Court,
Hawley, J.:
Qn the nineteenth day of February, A. D. 1881, articles. *141of incorporation of the “Nevada Benevolent Association” were filed in the office of the county.clerk of Storey county. The object of the corporation being “to establish and carry 'on the business of providing for and giving public entertainments, in the state of Nevada, of a musical and scientific character, to sell tickets of admission to such entertainments, and to purchase, hold, and distribute among the holders of such tickets personal property, real estate,-choses in action, and other valuable things, upon…
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