Mobile Building & Loan Ass'n v. Robertson
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Chancery Court of Mobile. Heard before the Hon. Hitbiosco Austill. The bill in this case was filed on the 26th April, 1877, by James Robertson, against the Mobile Building and Loan Association, a private domestic corporation chartered under the general law (Rev. Code, §§ 1755-61); and sought to' enjoin an action at law, which the association had instituted against him, to recover the possession of a house and lot in the city of Mobile ; and also to have the…
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Appeal from the Chancery Court of Mobile. Heard before the Hon. Hitbiosco Austill. The bill in this case was filed on the 26th April, 1877, by James Robertson, against the Mobile Building and Loan Association, a private domestic corporation chartered under the general law (Rev. Code, §§ 1755-61); and sought to' enjoin an action at law, which the association had instituted against him, to recover the possession of a house and lot in the city of Mobile ; and also to have the contract on which the action at law was founded, or the transaction of which that contract was a part, declared to be a…
1Opinion of the CourtBriokell, C. J.
— The appellant derives its corporate existence from proceedings in conformity to the general law *384(Code of 1867, part 2, chapter 3j, authorizing the incorporation of building and loan associations, and other enumerated companies, or societies. The statute, otherwise than by designating the business of the company, or the name of the association or society, does not particularize the objects or purposes of any corporation formed under it. These were required to be expressed in the written declaration of the corporators, filed in the office of the judge of probate, which, when taken and…
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