Kentucky Masonic Mutual Life Ins. v. Miller's Administrator
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 60 — PETITION ORDINARY APPEAL PROM HARRISON CIRCUIT COURT. 1. A corporation possesses only those properties which the charter confers on it (Dartmouth College v. Woodward, 4 Wheat. 518); can perform no acts, enter into no transactions, and incur no responsibility but -such as spring out of or are otherwise incidental (Green’s Brice’s Ultra Vires, 24, 28); are not bound by deed, if it appears by the express provisions of the statute creating the corporation, or by…
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Case 60 — PETITION ORDINARY APPEAL PROM HARRISON CIRCUIT COURT. 1. A corporation possesses only those properties which the charter confers on it (Dartmouth College v. Woodward, 4 Wheat. 518); can perform no acts, enter into no transactions, and incur no responsibility but -such as spring out of or are otherwise incidental (Green’s Brice’s Ultra Vires, 24, 28); are not bound by deed, if it appears by the express provisions of the statute creating the corporation, or by reasonable inference from its enactments, that the deed was ultra vires. (lb. 32). And a company incorporated for a special…
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE COFER
delivered the opinion oe the court.
It appears from tbe pleadings in this case, that April 9, 1868, the Kentucky Masonic Mutual Life Insurance Company issued to Isaac N. Miller a certificate of membership, in said company; that said Miller died intestate, leaving a widow, but no child or children, surviving him; that the widow has been judicially found to be of unsound mind; that the appellant B. G. Thomas is her committee; that the appellee is administrator of the goods, chattels, and credits of Miller; and that there is due from the said Masonic Mutual Life Insurance Company on…
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