International Kaolin Co. v. Vause

Citations

• 55 Fla. 641

Syllabus

<p>Corporations—Execution op Mortgage by—Interest of Defendant How Alleged In Bill—Equity Practice—Extending Time for Pleadings—Vacating Decree Pro-. Conpesso.</p> <p>x. Under the provisions of section 2459, General Statutes of 1906, (section 195 s> Revised Statutes of 1892) whether it is necessary to their validity that the deeds of corporations conveying land shall be witnessed by subscribing witnesses, Queret</p> <p>2. A trust deed or mortgage executed, attested and proven for record by two corporations in the State of New York in the following form:</p> <p>“In witness whereof the parties hereto have caused their respective corporate names to be hereunto subscribed by their respective presidents, thereto duly authorized, and their respective corporate seals tobe hereto affixed and attestedby their respective secretaries on the day and year first above written.</p> <p>(Corporate) International Kaolin Company,</p> <p>(' Seal ) Charles D. Haines, President.</p> <p>Attest: Stephen J. Brown, Secretary.</p> <p>(Corporate) . City Trust Company of New York,</p> <p>( seal ) By J. R. Curran, President.</p> <p>Attest: W. W. Lee, Secretary.</p> <p>As to City Trust Company,</p> <p>W. J. Eck,</p> <p>W. Smith.</p> <p>In presence of: as to International Kaolin Company and the signature of Charles D. Haines, as President and Stephen J. Brown, as Secretary.</p> <p>H. McGonegal,</p> <p>Geo. F. Bentley,</p> <p>State of New York,</p> <p>County of New York.</p> <p>On the first day of August in the year one thousand nine hundred and two, before me personally came Charles D. Haines, to me known, who being by me duly sworn, did depose and say that he then resided at Kinderbrook, Columbia County, New York; that he was then president of the International Kaolin Company, one of the* two corporations described in and which executed the foregoing instrument; that he knew the seal of said corporation; that the seal affixed to said intsrument was the said corporate seal; that it was so affixed