Eel River Navigation Co. v. Struver

Citations

• 41 Cal. 616
• 1871 Cal. LEXIS 143

Syllabus

<p>Seevice op Summons upon Oobpobation—Peesedent De Jube,—In an action against a corporation, where the summons was served upon Bristol, who had been duly elected its President and presided at several meetings of its Board of Trustees, and who had never resigned, or been removed, or his office declared vacant, or a permanent President chosen in his place— though he.had left the county and no longer took any part in the management of the corporation affairs, and at the meeting of the Board after his so leaving the county, another person was elected President pro tern, for that meeting, and was regarded by the stockholders as the President: held, that Bristol was still President de jure, and the service upon the corporation valid.</p>