Karr v. Jackson
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from St. Louis Court of Common Pleas. This was an action on a promissory note executed by defendant in favor of the Bank of Belleville. The note was assigned to the plaintiffs. The answer put in issue the establishment of the Bank of Belleville under the laws of Illinois, and further set up that the note was without consideration and was procured by fraudulent representations.
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Appeal from St. Louis Court of Common Pleas. This was an action on a promissory note executed by defendant in favor of the Bank of Belleville. The note was assigned to the plaintiffs. The answer put in issue the establishment of the Bank of Belleville under the laws of Illinois, and further set up that the note was without consideration and was procured by fraudulent representations. The plaintiffs gave in evidence the general banking-law of Illinois approved February, 15,1851. (See Sess. Acts, Ill., 1851, p. 163; Statutes of Ill. 1858, p. 111.) Plaintiffs also offered in evidence the…
1Opinion of the CourtScott, Judge
The principal question in this case is whether the certified copy of the record of the association of persons, for the purpose of establishing the Bank of Belleville in the state of Illinois, under the general banking law of that state passed on *318the 15th February, 1851, was properly admitted in evidence. The copy, besides an authentication under the laws of the United States, was sworn to be a true one taken from the record in Illinois. The law required the certificate of association to be recorded in the office of the recorder of the county where any office of such association should be…
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