Legal Opinion

State ex rel. Attorney-General v. Wood

Missouri Court of Appeals

Decided January 2, 1883PublishedCited by 2 opinions

Appeal from the St. Louis Circuit Court, Horner, J.

1Opinion of the CourtBakewell, J.

This is a proceeding in the name of the state at the relation of the attorney-general, to deprive of its franchises, the Woo’d Medicine Company, a corporation of which the other defendants are stockholders. The petition alleges that it was alleged in the articles of incorporation that all the stock has been subscribed and paid up in lawful money of the United States, and that this allegation was false ; that none of the stock had ever been paid up ; and that, for this reason, the procuring of the issuance of a certificate of incorporation was a fraud and a usurpation of franchises in…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Harris v. Mississippi Valley & Ship Island RailroadMississippi Supreme Court · 1875
  2. Livingstons v. LivingstonCourt for the Trial of Impeachments and Correction of Errors · 1836

3Cited by2 opinions

  1. State ex rel. Kansas City v. East Fifth Street Railway Co.Supreme Court of Missouri · 1897
  2. Kraft-Holmes Grocery Co. v. CrowMissouri Court of Appeals · 1889

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