Northwestern Union Packet Co. v. Shaw
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from tbe Circuit Court for La Crcsse County. The complaint alleges that the plaintiff is, and since May 1, 1870, and before, has been, a corporation created and organized pursuant to the laws of the state of Iowa, and is, and ever since its organization has been, engaged in the business of a common earner on the Mississippi river and its tributaries, and also in the business of purchasing, selling and dealing in wheat and other kinds of grain and produce; that at…
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APPEAL from tbe Circuit Court for La Crcsse County. The complaint alleges that the plaintiff is, and since May 1, 1870, and before, has been, a corporation created and organized pursuant to the laws of the state of Iowa, and is, and ever since its organization has been, engaged in the business of a common earner on the Mississippi river and its tributaries, and also in the business of purchasing, selling and dealing in wheat and other kinds of grain and produce; that at Lansing, in the state of Iowa, in June, 1870, the plaintiff, by its duly authorized agent, entered into a contract with the…
1Opinion of the CourtLyon, J.
The articles of incorporation of the plaintiff were read in evidence on the trial of the cause, and it appears therefrom that the plaintiff was organized under and by virtue of chapter 52 of the revision of 1860 of the laws of Iowa, entitled “ Corporations for pecuniary benefit.” The statute was not put in evidence, and we cannot taire judicial notice of its provisions. The articles set forth the purposes for which the plaintiff was organized, as follows :
“ It is agreed, first, that the name of the corporation shall be the ‘ Northwestern Union Packet Company,’ and that the general nature of…
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- Madison, Watertown & Milwaukee Plank Road Co. v. Watertown & Portland Plank Road Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1859
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