 When a corporation is acting within the general scope of the powers conferred upon it by the Legislature, the corporation, as well as persons contracting with it, may be estopped to deny that it has complied with the legal formalities which are prerequisites...  The Federal Reporter - Page 161908Full view - About this book
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1916 - 720 pages
...formalities which are pre-requisites to its existence or to its action, because such pre-requisites might, in fact, have been complied with. But when...it, to show that it was prohibited by those laws." This court pointed out the distinction between cases where the act of the corporation was beyond the... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1910 - 726 pages
...valid by acquiescence, since there was no power to make it." When the contract is beyond the power conferred upon it by existing laws, neither the corporation...upon it to show that it was prohibited by those laws. (Stecle v. Fraternal Tribunes, 215 111. 190.) The act of the appellee company in participating in the... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1910 - 1206 pages
...valid by acquiescence, since there was no power to make it." When the contract is beyond the power conferred upon : it by existing laws, neither the...upon it to show that it was prohibited by those laws. Steele v. Fraternal Tribunes, 215 111. 190. 74 NE 121, 106 Am. St Rep. 160. The act of the appellee... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1913 - 1390 pages
...Car Co., 139 US 24, 59, 11 Sup. Ct 478, 35 L. Ed. 55, and as applied in many subsequent cases, is: 'A contract of a corporation which is ultra vires,...It, to show that It was prohibited by those laws.' See, also, McCormlck v. Market Bank, 1G5 US 538, 17 Sup. Ct. 433, 41 L. Ed. 817; California Bank v.... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1903 - 1258 pages
...either party, because it could not have been authorized by either. No and 112 New York State Reporter performance on either side can give the unlawful contract...it, to show that it was prohibited by those laws." Central Transp. Co. v. Pullman's Palace-Car Co., 139 US 24, 11 Sup. Ct. 478, 35 L. Ed. 55; Louisville,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1891 - 860 pages
...existence or to its action, because such requisites might in fact have been complied with. But when tue contract is beyond the powers conferred upon it by...to show that it was prohibited by those laws. The doctrine of the common law, by which a tenant of real estate is estopped to deny his landlord's title,... | |
 | Appellate courts - 1905 - 856 pages
...Car Co., 139 US 24, 59, 11 Sup. Ct. 478, 35 L. Ed. 55, and as applied in many subsequent cases, is: "A contract of a corporation which Is -ultra vires,...it, to show that it was prohibited by those laws." See, also, McCormick v. Market Bank, 165 US 538, 17 Sup. Ct. 433, 41 L. Ed. 817 ; California Bank v.... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1893 - 922 pages
...have been complied with. But when the contract is beyond the powers conferred upon it by existing law, neither the corporation, nor the other party to the...upon it to show that it was prohibited by those laws. . . . A contract vitra virée being unlawful and void, not be cause it is in itself immoral, but because... | |
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