State ex rel. Pittman v. Adams
Supreme Court of Missouri
Error to Sixth District Court. I. The act of December 11, 1863, was inoperative and conferred no title to the curatorship on the defendants in this case. (Fletcher v. Peck, 6 Cranch, 87,136 ; State v. Wilson, 7 Cranch, 164; Pawlet v. Clark, 9 Cranch, 292 ; 1 Kyd on Corporations, 16; Wales v. Stetson, 2 Mass. 143, 146; Terret v. Taylor, 9 Cranch, 43.) H. If the amendment of 1847 was invalid for any cause, it was simply a nullity.
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Error to Sixth District Court. I. The act of December 11, 1863, was inoperative and conferred no title to the curatorship on the defendants in this case. (Fletcher v. Peck, 6 Cranch, 87,136 ; State v. Wilson, 7 Cranch, 164; Pawlet v. Clark, 9 Cranch, 292 ; 1 Kyd on Corporations, 16; Wales v. Stetson, 2 Mass. 143, 146; Terret v. Taylor, 9 Cranch, 43.) H. If the amendment of 1847 was invalid for any cause, it was simply a nullity. It had no operation for any purpose, and, least of all, for vitiating the original charter or effecting a forfeiture. III. If by any means a forfeiture was…
1Opinion of the Court
Bliss, Judge,
delivered the 'opinion of the court.
The circuit attorney of the 19th judicial circuit filed in the St. Charles Circuit Court an information, in the nature of a quo toarranto, on the relation of David K. Pittman, Andrew Monroe, Trusten Polk, Asa N. Overall, Daniel A. Griffith, Samuel Overall, Norman Lackland, Lloyd Dorsay, Wrenshall D. Fielding, John A. Talley, James S. M. Gray, Thos. W. Cunningham, James Campbell, Robert B. Frazier, Richard E. Bland, Dennis McDonald, John W. Robinson, John Atkinson, Joseph Boyle, Enoch'M. Marvin, Edward A. Lewis, and David K. McAnally, against…
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