Attorney General v. Electric Storage Battery Co.

These are informations in equity brought by the attorney general against a foreign corporation, the first at the relation of the commissioner of corporations, under St. 1903, c. 487, § 50, and the second at the relation of the treasurer and receiver general, under § 78 of the same chapter, to enforce the provisions of §§ 66, 67 and 75. These require every foreign cor*240poration, of the classes described in § 58, annually to file in the office of the secretary of the Commonwealth a certificate of certain facts, and to pay an excise tax assessed upon its capital stock by the tax commissioner. The…