Magee v. Mokelumne Hill Canal
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court of the Fifth Judicial District, Calaveras County. The action is brought by the plaintiffs, who are endorsees of certain notes or orders issued by the defendants, an incorporated company, upon their Treasurer, for money borrowed by them in their corporate capacity.
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Appeal from the District Court of the Fifth Judicial District, Calaveras County. The action is brought by the plaintiffs, who are endorsees of certain notes or orders issued by the defendants, an incorporated company, upon their Treasurer, for money borrowed by them in their corporate capacity. At the trial, defendants’ counsel requested the Court to charge the jury : “That if the jury believed from the evidence that any of the bills, orders, or other written evidences of indebtedness upon which the action is brought, were issued for money loaned to the company, and that fact was known to the…
1Opinion of the CourtHeydenfeldt, J.
Murray, C. J.. and Bryan, J., concurred.
The objection made by appellants as to the selection of the jury shown by an affidavit of one of the attorneys, which, although copied into the transcript, is no part of the record, and therefore cannot be noticed.
The only other assignment of error depends upon the construction of the third section of the “Act concerning Corporations,” of 1850. It provides that no corporation created, or to be created, shall by any implication or construction be deemed to possess the power of issuing bills, notes, or other evidences of debt, upon loans, or for…
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