Kentucky Insurance Co. v. Hawkins

OPINION of the Court, by

Cli. J. Boyxe.

■This was an jMi°n by petition and summons upon a note for the direct payment of money. The defendants demur-red, and the court below being of opinion that as the plaintiff was a corporate body, the remedy by petition and summons would not lie, gave judgment on the de^ murrer for the defendants, from which this appeal is prosecuted.

Whether we consult the reason or the letter of the lav/ giving this form of action, we are equally at a loss to perceive any impropriety in its being maintained by a corporation.

The evident object of the law was to give, in…