State ex rel. Major v. German Mutual Life Insurance
Supreme Court of Missouri
Quo "Warranto. (1) The term “perpetual succession,” as used in the special act creating respondent insurance company, implied nothing more than a continuance of succession during the existence of said insurance company, which was fox twenty years, as provided by the general corporation laws then in force. ■ R. S. 1855, sec. 1, p. 369 (Now sec. 971, R. S. 1899.); State ex rel. v. Road Co., 207 Mo. 73, 101; State ex rel. v. Payne, 129 Mo. 468; State ex rel. v. Ladies of Sacred…
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Quo "Warranto. (1) The term “perpetual succession,” as used in the special act creating respondent insurance company, implied nothing more than a continuance of succession during the existence of said insurance company, which was fox twenty years, as provided by the general corporation laws then in force. ■ R. S. 1855, sec. 1, p. 369 (Now sec. 971, R. S. 1899.); State ex rel. v. Road Co., 207 Mo. 73, 101; State ex rel. v. Payne, 129 Mo. 468; State ex rel. v. Ladies of Sacred Heart, 99 Mo. 533; State ex rel. v. Lesueur, 141 Mo. 29; State ex rel. v. Road Co., 138 Mo. 332; Bradley v. Reppell,…
1Opinion of the CourtWoodson, J.
— This is an original proceeding in the nature of quo warranto, instituted in this court by the Attorney-General, at his own relation, against the German Mutual Life Insurance Company of St. Louis and its board of trustees, by which they are charged with the usurpation of the rights, privileges and franchises of a corporation, and are asked to show by what authority they exercise the same.
Respondents filed their return, justifying their conduct in the premises on the ground that the act of their incorporation, approved November 23, 1857, and amended February 5, 1864, granted unto them a…
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