State of Texas v. Burgess
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Third District, in an appeal from Travis County. The State of Texas appealed from a judgment for defendants on demurrer, in a suit brought by it to prohibit them from doing business as a corporation, and on an affirmance obtained a writ of error.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Williams
The object of this suit is to restrain the. defendants from carrying on a live stock insurance business under the charter of a corporation called the Southwestern Live Stock Insurance Company. The general grounds of the action were that the company was not legally incorporated and had not complied with conditions- prescribed by the laws of the State to entitle it to conduct an insurance business. The more specific allegation was that the charter, a copy of which was attached to the petition, had only been filed with the Secretary of State, and had never been approved by the Attorney General,…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Farmer v. StateTexas Supreme Court · 1888
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