Goodbread v. Philadelphia, Bala & Bryn Mawr Turnpike Co.

Citations

• 13 Pa. Super. 82
• 1900 Pa. Super. LEXIS 114

Syllabus

<p>Corporations — Charter of incorporation — Impeachment of in collateral proceedings.</p> <p>The charter of incorporation cannot be impeached by a private suitor in a collateral proceeding, but only by the state in a proceeding in the nature of a quo warranto.</p> <p>The statements in letters patent issued by the governor to a corporation must be taken as verity, and cannot be contradicted by either the minute book of the company or the testimony of the officers.</p> <p>Corporations — Letters patent — Recording of certificate of incorporation— ■ Acts of April 8, 1861, May 15, 1874, and April 29, 1874.</p> <p>Where a corporation has been sold under the provisions of the Act of April 8, 1861, P. L. 259, and anew corporation organized by the purchasers under the provisions o£ that act, to which letters patent are issued by the governor of the commonwealth under the Act of May 15, 1874, P. L. 186, the corporation so organized is not subject to the provisions of the General Corporation Act of April 29, 1874, P. L. 73, and section 3 of that act, requiring the certificate of incorporation to be recorded in the county in which the corporation does business, has no application.</p>