Fortin v. United States Wind Engine & Pump Co.

Citations

• 48 Ill. 451

Syllabus

<p>1. Nul tied corporation—evidence under. Where a plea, denying the corporate existence of the plaintiff suing as a corporation, is pleaded, the original articles of association, properly recorded, may be read in evidence, without a certificate of thé clerk that it is a true copy.</p> <p>2. Verdict—supported by evidence. Where two brothers lived together, and farmed and raised stock jointly, and were in the habit of purchasing goods which were charged to them jointly, and were paid for, sometimes by one, and at other times by the other, and one of them purchased a pump, to be used for their stock on the farm, although it was placed on the part of the iarm of the brother who made the purchase: Held, that the jury would be warranted in finding that it was purchased on joint account.</p>