Ramsdell v. National Rivet & Novelty Co.

JACKSON, District Judge.

This case is now heard upon exceptions to the master’s report. The first exception taken by the plaintiff to the report insists that there is no evidence to sustain the conclusion of the master that the corporation was organized on the 5th day of October, 1891. The certificate of incorporation was issued by the secretary of state of West Virginia on the 11th day of September, 1891, and the evidence of H. B. Haigh, at page 2 of the defendants’ depositions, shows that on the 28th day of September, 1891, special notice was given by a majority of the incorporators, by…