Mechanics' Building Ass'n v. Stevens

5 Duer 676

• Court: The Superior Court of New York City
• Decided: June 4, 1856
• Status: Published

Opinion

Duer, J.,

held, that this is not a defence of which the defendants can avail themselves; that, admitting that the association was a moneyed corporation, subject, as such, to the provisions of the Revised Statutes, and that, by its failure to comply with those provisions, it had forfeited its charter, it belonged to the state alone, by a proceeding instituted for that purpose, to enforce the forfeiture, and that the association, until by a judicial sentence its charter was declared to be void, was a corporation de facto, and that no private person, more especially no person dealing with it, could be permitted to say that it was not also a corporation de jure. (Triton Ins. Co. v. McGarian, 4 Denio, 392; Brower v. Appleby, 1 Sand. S. C. R. 107; Palmer v. Lawrence, 3 id. 161, 170.)

Judgment for plaintiff, directing salé of mortgage and premises.