Fredenburg v. Lyon Lake M. E. Church
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Calhoun. Assumpsit by the church as a corporation against its treasurer, Eredenburg, to recover moneys which it was alleged he had received and not accounted for. He' pleaded set-off and gave notice that he would show that the church never had a corporate existence, and could not sue as a corporation. Plaintiff recovered and defendant brought, error.
1Per curiam
In the court below the corporate existence of the defendant in error was in dispute, and they sought to establish it by showing that the associates held the ordinary meetings of a religious society, and that they elected officers, among which was Fredenburg as treasurer. This evidence was held to be sufficient; the court regarding Fredenburg as precluded, by accepting the office of treasurer, from disputing the corporate existence. Now had any of the acts of the associates been unmistakably corporate acts, there would be some ground for the ruling of the court below. But such was not the…
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