Vermont Mining & Quarrying Co v. Windham County Bank
Supreme Court of Vermont
Bill IN chancery. The bill brought originally by said corporation only, charged that July 15,1859, at Providence, B. I., Georgv Kendall, of said Providence, and his wife Mary E., déeded t .< said corporation the “ Slate Quarry ” in the towns of Vernon and Guilford, in Windham county, Vt., for the consideration of $5000, actually paid to said Kendall; that one person only signed his name as a witness, though the deed was in fact executed in the presence of two witnesses, the…
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Bill IN chancery. The bill brought originally by said corporation only, charged that July 15,1859, at Providence, B. I., Georgv Kendall, of said Providence, and his wife Mary E., déeded t .< said corporation the “ Slate Quarry ” in the towns of Vernon and Guilford, in Windham county, Vt., for the consideration of $5000, actually paid to said Kendall; that one person only signed his name as a witness, though the deed was in fact executed in the presence of two witnesses, the laws of Bhode Island requiring but one witness to a deed ; that the deed was acknowledged at Providence before a Vermont…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
PeCK, J.
It is objected on the part of the defense that the court of chancery improperly allowed the amendment. As the three orators let in by the amendment own the whole stock of the Vermont Mining and Quarrying company, and as they paid the whole consideration to Kendall for the premises in question, which he conveyed to the corporation, and took the whole stock of the corporation, the order permitting the amendment is but allowing these stockholders to prosecute the same right in their own names, which they commenced to prosecute in the name of the…
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