State ex rel. Attorney-General v. The Boatmen's Savings Institution
Supreme Court of Missouri
Quo Warranto. with whom were Clover and Knox, for relator, cited Lehigh Bridge Co. v. Lehigh Coal Co., 4 Rawle, Penn., 9; 6 Conn. 209; 14 Ohio, 10; State Bank v. State, 1 Black, 279; Canal Co. v. R.R. Co., 4 Gill &’ Johns. 1; Trustees of Mclntire Poor School v. Zanes-ville Canal & Man.
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Quo Warranto. with whom were Clover and Knox, for relator, cited Lehigh Bridge Co. v. Lehigh Coal Co., 4 Rawle, Penn., 9; 6 Conn. 209; 14 Ohio, 10; State Bank v. State, 1 Black, 279; Canal Co. v. R.R. Co., 4 Gill &’ Johns. 1; Trustees of Mclntire Poor School v. Zanes-ville Canal & Man. Co., 9 Ohio, 203 ; Penobscot Boom Corp. v. Lamson, 16 Me. 224; Hodson v. Copeland, id. 314; Atcha-falaya Bank v. Dawn, 13 La, 497; Charles- River Bridge v. Warren Bridge, 7 Pick., Mass., 371 ; All Saints Church v. Lovett, 1 Hall, N. Y., 198; John v. Farmers’ & Mechanics’Bank of Indiana, 2 Blackf., Ind., 367 ;…
1Opinion of the CourtCurrier, Judge
This is a proceeding in the nature of a writ quo warranto, prosecuted by the attorney-general in behalf of the State, with a view to forfeiture of the defendant’s charter. Supposed violations of the charter, in loaning money and discounting paper at usurious rates, constitute the groundwork of the prosecution.
As showing such violation, it is alleged that said banking institution, in willful disregard of the restrictions of its charter, has^ for a long time past, been in the constant practice of loaning its money by discounting promissory notes at exorbitant and usurious rates of interest, far…
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