Smith v. Sherman
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from BlaclchawTc District Court. — Hon. A. S. Blair, Judge. 1 In 1887 the defendants, with others, organized an insurance company known as the Citizens’ Mutual Insurance Company. Before the company commenced business, the defendants, with others, executed the following writing.
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Appeal from BlaclchawTc District Court. — Hon. A. S. Blair, Judge. 1 In 1887 the defendants, with others, organized an insurance company known as the Citizens’ Mutual Insurance Company. Before the company commenced business, the defendants, with others, executed the following writing. “For the purpose of the guarantee or pledge fund of the Citizens’ Mutual , Insurance Company of Waterloo, Iowa, I hereby promise to take the number of shares of said fund set opposite my name, at one hundred dollars per share, payable on the order of the directors of said association; provided, not to exceed ten…
1Opinion of the CourtSherwin, J.
2 *6053 *6064 *604Assignments of error 1 to 13, inclusive, relate to rulings on the introduction of testimony and documentary evidence. We discover no error that was not cured by subsequent rulings. The articles of incorporation of the Mutual Insurance Company were offered by the defendants, and objected to by plaintiff on the grounds stated by him as follows: (1) For the reason they were never properly acknowledged, and in that the attempted acknowledgments failed to set forth in the title of the officer taking such acknowledgments ; (2) such acknowledgments failed to set forth and show the county of…
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