Legal Opinion

Finnegan v. Noerenberg

Supreme Court of Minnesota

Decided January 13, 1893PublishedCited by 44 opinions

Appeal by plaintiff, Andrew J. Finnegan, from a judgment of the District Court of Hennepin County, Smith, J., entered May 24,1892, that he take nothing by his action. Plaintiff commenced this action against defendants, Frederick D. Noerenberg, Charles S. Axtell, George Huhn, Joseph P. Allaire and many others, alleging in his complaint, that they were copartners doing business under the name of “The K. of L. Building Association.”

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Appeal by plaintiff, Andrew J. Finnegan, from a judgment of the District Court of Hennepin County, Smith, J., entered May 24,1892, that he take nothing by his action. Plaintiff commenced this action against defendants, Frederick D. Noerenberg, Charles S. Axtell, George Huhn, Joseph P. Allaire and many others, alleging in his complaint, that they were copartners doing business under the name of “The K. of L. Building Association.” That in December, 1888, at Minneapolis, he at their request furnished materials and did plumbing to the value of $599.50 for them upon a building they were erecting.…

1Opinion of the CourtGilfillan, C. J.

Eight persons signed, acknowledged, and caused to be filed and recorded in the office of the city clerk in Minneapolis, articles assuming and purporting to form, under Laws 1870, ch. 29, a corporation, for the purpose, as specified in them, of “buying, owning, improving, selling, and leasing of lands, tenements, and hereditaments, real, personal, and mixed estates and property, including the construction and leasing of a building in the city of Minneapolis, Minn., as a hall to aid and carry out the general purposes of the organization known as the ‘Knights of Labor.’” The association received…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Methodist Episcopal Union Church v. . PickettNew York Court of Appeals · 1859
  2. Trustees of East Norway Lake Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church v. FroislieSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1887
  3. Johnson v. CorserSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1885

3Cited by44 opinions

  1. State v. . DixonSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1939
  2. State v. DixonSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1939
  3. Harrill v. DavisCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1909
  4. Washington Investment Ass'n v. StanleyOregon Supreme Court · 1901
  5. Hunt v. AtkinsonTexas Commission of Appeals · 1929

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