Empire State Savings Bank v. Beard
New York Supreme Court
Appeal from special term, Erie county. Action by the Empire State Savings Bank of Buffalo against Daniel 0. Beard, Peter J. Ferris, Bussell H. Potter, Henry H. Otis, James F. Trott, Charles Berrick, and Samuel H. Wilkeson and others, as executors of John Wilkeson, deceased, impleaded with others. From an interlocutory judgment overrruling the demurrer to the complaint with leave to defendants to answer on payment of costs, the defendants named appeal. Affirmed.
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Appeal from special term, Erie county. Action by the Empire State Savings Bank of Buffalo against Daniel 0. Beard, Peter J. Ferris, Bussell H. Potter, Henry H. Otis, James F. Trott, Charles Berrick, and Samuel H. Wilkeson and others, as executors of John Wilkeson, deceased, impleaded with others. From an interlocutory judgment overrruling the demurrer to the complaint with leave to defendants to answer on payment of costs, the defendants named appeal. Affirmed. The plaintiff by the complaint alleges: That the National Savings Bank of Buffalo was incorporated by chapter 777 of the Laws of…
1Opinion of the CourtBradley, J.
The act of 1867, by which the National Savings I Bank of Buffalo was created, provided that the persons there named I I as trustees and their successors were constituted a body corporate ! I and politic by that name; that its business should be managed by I a board of trustees, 15 of whom, including the president or one of I the vice presidents, should constitute a legal meeting for the trans-I action of business; and that the general business and object of the I corporation should' be to receive on deposit and invest such sums I of money as might be offered therefor. By the general act of…
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