Priest v. Essex Hat Manufacturing Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity in behalf of the plaintiffs and of all other creditors of the Essex Hat Manufacturing Company, alleged to be a corporation created and organized under the general laws of Massachusetts, against said corporation, and William Cushing, Edward Burrill, Henry Cook, Robert Bayley, Edwin Blood, Thomas E. Cutter and Rufus A. Wills, alleged to be officers thereof.
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Bill in equity in behalf of the plaintiffs and of all other creditors of the Essex Hat Manufacturing Company, alleged to be a corporation created and organized under the general laws of Massachusetts, against said corporation, and William Cushing, Edward Burrill, Henry Cook, Robert Bayley, Edwin Blood, Thomas E. Cutter and Rufus A. Wills, alleged to be officers thereof. The case was reserved by Morton, J., on the bill, answers and evidence, for the consideration of the full court. The material facts appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtWells, J.
The Essex Hat Manufacturing Company was or ganized as a corporation under the provisions of the Gen. Sts. c. 61 ; and the defendants, Cushing, Burrill, Bayley, Wills. Cook *381and Blood were elected as its officers. The certificate, required by § 8 of that chapter, signed and sworn to by all said officers except Wills, was filed in the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth. The association thereupon engaged in business in its corporate name; contracted debts, made the notes, and suffered the judgments set forth in the bill. Other certificates were made declaring the corporate character of…
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