Charitable Ass'n in Middle Parish v. Baldwin
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Assumrsit on two promissory notes, one for $200, and the other for $ 100, given to the plaintiffs by the defendant. One of said notes was made payable to “ the Charitable Association,” without further designation of the payees.
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Assumrsit on two promissory notes, one for $200, and the other for $ 100, given to the plaintiffs by the defendant. One of said notes was made payable to “ the Charitable Association,” without further designation of the payees. The case was submitted to the court on a statement made by the parties, to the following effect: Timothy Robinson and others, and their associates, were made a body corporate by St. 1797, c. 29, (2 Special Laws, 185,) under the name of “ The Charitable Association in the Middle Parish in the town of Granville.” In the preamble of this statute, it is set forth that…
1Opinion of the CourtDewey, J.
The principal question raised in this case is as to the authority of those, who are conducting the present action, to institute the suit and prosecute the same to final judgment in the name of the plaintiffs. The defendant contends that bv *364virtue of the articles of association of the original members of the Charitable Association in Middle Granville, which preceded the act incorporating the plaintiffs, and, as is said, by force and effect of their charter became incorporated with the same for the future government of the association, no suit could be instituted upon promissory notes given to…
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