Holt v. Metropolitan Trust Co.

Citations

• 11 S.D. 456
• 78 N.W. 947
• 1899 S.D. LEXIS 16

Syllabus

<p>Comp. Laws, §§ 3281, 3288; provide that an acknowledgment of an instrument executed by a corporation must not be taken unless the officer tak- • ing it knows, or has satisfactory evidence on the oath or affirmation of a credible witness, that the person making such acknowledgment is the president or secretary of such corporation, and that an officer taking the acknowledgement of an instrument must indorse thereon or attach thereto a certificate stating that the person signing the same was known to him (or so proved) to be the president (or secretary) of the corporation that executed the instrument. Held, that a certificate is insufficient which recites the acknowledgement of two persons, “to me personally known to be the identical persons whose names are subscribed to the foregoing instrument as president and Secretary” of a corporation party.</p>