People v. President & Directors of the Manhattan Co.
New York Supreme Court
Quo warranto. In October term, 1830, the attorney-general filed an information in the nature of a quo warranto against the defendants, charging them with using without lawful warrant or charter the franchise of being a body politic and corporate, and of carrying on banking operations without being authorized so to do.
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Quo warranto. In October term, 1830, the attorney-general filed an information in the nature of a quo warranto against the defendants, charging them with using without lawful warrant or charter the franchise of being a body politic and corporate, and of carrying on banking operations without being authorized so to do. The information charged the usurpation for the space of eight months then last past and upwards, in different forms: as, that the defendants were interested in an association or company for the purpose of receiving deposits, making discounts, issuing notes, &c.; in a bank for…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Sutherland, J.
The replications appear to me to be bad for some of the causes specially assigned in the demurrer. 1. The citizens who were willing and desirous to agree for and take the water, should some or one of them *374have been named in the replications. The allegation is, that a great number of citizens have, at all times since the passing of the act incorporating the defendants, been willing and desirous to agree for and take the water, but that the company have not furnished or continued a supply for the use of all such citizens, &c. If the allegations were true in point of…
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