Burris v. Jessup & Moore Paper Co.

Lore, C. J.:

From the agreement filed in this case, it appears that “The Jessup and Moore Paper Company,” the defendant, is a corporation of this State. It was chartered by an act of the General Assembly, passed at Dover, March 15, 1877. The charter was renewed for twenty years by act of March 6, 1895; which renewed charter would not have expired until March 6, 1915.

*155On the ninth day of August, 1899, under the provisions of' “ An Act Providing a General Corporation Law ” for this State,, approved March 10, 1899, the defendant company for its own convenience amended its charter, and at the same…