Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, 1806

President of the Union Turnpike Road v. Jenkins

President of the Union Turnpike Road v. Jenkins
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Decided March 15, 1806
2 Mass. 37
President of the Union Turnpike Road v. Jenkins

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Opinion of the Court

The Court,

without hearing the defendants’ counsel, were unani-' mously of opinion that an aggregate corporation cannot be sum maned as trustee, and that effects and credits, in the hands of such a corporation, cannot be attached under the statute.(a)

By the act of 1832, c. 164, corporations are made liable to the process of foreign attachment,

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