Goodwin Invalid Bedstead Co. v. Darling

The plaintiff sues as a corporation. The defendant’s answer “ denies each and every allegation in the plaintiff’s writ and declaration contained.” Before the St. of 1881, c. 113, was enacted, such pleadings put in issue the fact of the corporate existence of the plaintiff. Hungerford National Bank *359v. Van Nostrand, 106 Mass. 559. Mosler v. Potter, 121 Mass. 89. Hebron Church Deacons v. Smith, 121 Mass. 90, note. Williamsburg Ins. Co. v. Frothingham, 122 Mass. 391.

J. W. Pickering, for the plaintiff. C. R. Brainard, for the defendant.

The St. of 1881, c. 113, which provides that, when it appears…