Butts v. . Wood

The bill of the defendant, Daniel Wood, was presented, audited and ordered to be paid at a meeting of the board of directors of the company, on the 5th day of July, 1859, when but three of the five directors who composed the board were present, the defendant, Daniel Wood, being one of those present, and his father, William Wood, and John Cornwall, another kinsman, being the other two. This board, as thus constituted, had no authority to entertain the bill in question, or to do any thing in relation to it. Daniel Wood, being the claimant, was disqualified from acting, because he could not deal…