 The duties and powers of the officers or public agents of the corporation are prescribed by statute or charter, which all persons not only may know, but are bound to know. The opposite doctrine would be fraught with such danger and accompanied with such...  Michigan Reports: Cases Decided in the Supreme Court of Michigan - Page 503by Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - 1899Full view - About this book
 | John Forrest Dillon - 1873 - 546 pages
...The inhabitants are the corporators — the officers are hut the public agents of the corporation. The duties and powers of the officers or public agents of the corpora' Randall r. Van Vechten, 10 Johns. 60, 65, 1821 ; Damon r. Granby, 2 Pick. 345, 1824; compare,... | |
 | New Jersey. Court of Chancery, Charles Ewing Green - 1874 - 638 pages
...nature of such insti• tntions, and to rest upon reasonable and solid grounds. Their duties and powers are prescribed by statute or charter, which all persons,...accompanied with such abuse, that it would soon end iu the ruin of municipalities, or be legislatively overthrown. In the present ease, it was urged, on... | |
 | Louisiana. Supreme Court - 1878 - 968 pages
...which is beyond the scope of ite powers, or is entirely foreign to the purposes of the corporation. * * The duties and powers of the officers or public agents of the corpomtion arc prescribed by statute or charter, which all persons not only may know, but are bound... | |
 | Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals - 1878 - 934 pages
...— the officers are but the public agents of the corporation. The duties and powers of such officers are prescribed by statute or charter which all persons not only may knotr tnit are bound to kn,nr. The opposite doctrine would be fraught with such danger and accompanied... | |
 | Austin Abbott - 1879 - 664 pages
...Corporations (2d Ed., § 381), in reference to legislative restrictions upon corporate powers, aptly says : " The opposite doctrine would be fraught with such danger,...of municipalities, or be legislatively overthrown. VoL. V.— 26 People ex rel. Murphy c. Kelly. . . . . The history of the workings of municipal bodies... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - 1883 - 890 pages
...The inhabitants are the corporators — the officers are but the public agents of the corporation. The duties and powers of the officers or public agents...would be fraught with such danger, and accompanied witli such abuse, that it would soon end in the ruin of municipalities, or be legislatively overthrown.... | |
 | 1901 - 1164 pages
...corporators; the officers are but the public agents of the corporation. The duties and powers of tie officers or public agents of the corporation are prescribed...of municipalities, or be legislatively overthrown. These considerations vindicate both the reasonableness and necessity of the rule that the corporation... | |
 | Ontario. High Court of Justice - 1885 - 848 pages
...corporation. The duties and powers of the officers or public agents of the corporation are prescribed by the statute or charter, which all persons not only may...of municipalities, or be legislatively overthrown. * * It results from this doctrine that unauthorized contracts are void, and in actions thereon the... | |
 | 1903 - 1148 pages
...grounds. The inhabitants are the corporators. The officers are but the public agents of the corporation. The duties and powers of the officers or public agents...only may know, but are bound to know. The opposite doetrine would be fraught with such danger and accompanied with such abuse that it would soon end In... | |
 | Ontario. High Court of Justice - 1885 - 846 pages
...grounds. The inhabitants are the corporators, the officers are but the public agents of the corporation. The duties and powers of the officers or public agents of the corporation are prescribed by the statute or charter, which all persons not only may know. but are bound to know. The opposite doctrine... | |
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