People ex rel. Attorney General v. Grand Rapids Sticky Fly Paper Co.
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Kent; Wolcott, J. Quo warranto proceedings by the people of the State of Michigan, on the relation of John E. Bird, attorney general, against the Grand Rapids Sticky Fly Paper Company to determine its corporate existence. There was judgment, of ouster, and respondent brings error. It is set out in the information, which was filed by leave of the court, that respondent is a corporation organized in December, 1902, under the provisions of Act No. 232, Pub.
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Error to Kent; Wolcott, J. Quo warranto proceedings by the people of the State of Michigan, on the relation of John E. Bird, attorney general, against the Grand Rapids Sticky Fly Paper Company to determine its corporate existence. There was judgment, of ouster, and respondent brings error. It is set out in the information, which was filed by leave of the court, that respondent is a corporation organized in December, 1902, under the provisions of Act No. 232, Pub. Acts 1885, and amendatory acts, for the purpose, expressed in its articles, of ‘ ‘ the manufacture, purchase, and sale of fly paper…
1Opinion of the CourtOstrander, J.
(after stating the facts). The questions proper to be considered and determined arise upon the practice followed and upon the information and plea. *229Extended statements of facts, entirely outside of the record presented to this court, appear in the briefs, and are made the basis for much that is said by way of argument. As an example, a quotation from the brief for respondent is here given:
“The closing appeal in relator’s brief, though untrue in statement of facts, does at last get down to the real question here. That question is: Shall respondent be dissolved and be prevented from using the-…
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