Cahill v. Kalamazoo Mutual Insurance
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Kalamazoo' Circuit Court. This was an action of assumpsit, brought by the Kalamazoo Mutual Insurance Company, as a corporation, upon the following instrument, executed by the defendants below, and commonly designated as a premium or deposite note : $32.04 Kalamazoo, Aug. 14,1840. For value received in policy No. 831, dated 14th Aug. 1840, issued by the Kalamazoo Mutual Insurance Company, we promise to pay the company, or their treasurer for the time being,…
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Error to Kalamazoo' Circuit Court. This was an action of assumpsit, brought by the Kalamazoo Mutual Insurance Company, as a corporation, upon the following instrument, executed by the defendants below, and commonly designated as a premium or deposite note : $32.04 Kalamazoo, Aug. 14,1840. For value received in policy No. 831, dated 14th Aug. 1840, issued by the Kalamazoo Mutual Insurance Company, we promise to pay the company, or their treasurer for the time being, thirty-two dollars and four cents, in such portions, and at such times, as the directors of said company shall, agreeably to…
1Opinion of the Court · FelchFelch, J.
1. It is urged as a ground for reversing the judgment below, that the court erred in refusing to nonsuit the plaintiffs below, because there was no sufficient evidence to prove their corporate existence, and in charging the jury that no proof of organization under their charter was necessary.
Whether the evidence adduced to prove corporate existence (which consisted merely in the production of the charter of the corporation, and acts amendatory thereto, and proof of acts of use?-,) was sufficient or not, we are clearly of opinion that there was no error in refusing the nonsuit. This court has…
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