Eaton v. . Aspinwall

The act authorizing the incorporation of companies to navigate the ocean by steamships, by its second section, provides that, where the certificate provided for in its first section shall have been filed as therein required, and ten per cent of the capital named paid in, the persons who shall have signed and acknowledged the same, and all others who shall thereafter become holders of any share or shares of said capital stock, and their successors, shall be a body politic and corporate, in fact and in name, by the name stated in such certificate. Sections 6 and 8 of the act make each…