Vermilyea v. Fulton Bank

The Chahcellor. :—It is now well settled, that officers of a corporation may be made parties to a bill of discovery, for the purpose of enabling the complainant to obtain a knowledge of facts which could not be ascertained by the answer of the corporation, put in under their corporate seal, and without oath. But what is to be the effect of that answer of *the agent or servant of the corporation, is a questian that does not seem to have received any formal adjudication in this court. If it is to be binding and conclusive upon the corporation, I can see no necessity for making the agent a party…