State ex rel. Gorman v. Nichols

Citations

• 40 Wash. 437
• 82 P. 741
• 1905 Wash. LEXIS 1000

Syllabus

<p>Corporations — Trust Companies — Articles op Incorporation— Compliance With Trust Company Act — Construction—Right to File. Under Laws 1903-, p. 317, providing that thereafter no corporation shall he organized to carry on a trust business except under said act, a proposed corporation with powers confined almost wholly to an agency or trust business, with substantially the powers of a trust company, cannot be incorporated under Bal. Code, §§ 4250-4290, although the articles are drawn thereunder and do not follow the language of the act of 1903; or include all the powers of the latter act.</p> <p>Mandamus — When Lies — Secretary of State — Illegal Articles of Incorporation — Filing. The duties of the secretary of state are not ministerial to the extent of requiring him to file improper articles of incorporation and refer the matter to the attorney general for action; nor would the courts require the doing of a vain or illegal act.</p>