Supreme Court of Missouri October 15, 1884 (State ex rel. Attorney General v. Wood)

Norton, J.

This proceeding was instituted in the St. Louis circuit court on behalf of the state on the relation of the attorney general, in which a forfeiture of the franchises of the Wood Medicine Company, a corporation, it being alleged as the ground therefor, that the statement in the articles of incorporation, that the stock had been subscribed and paid for in lawful money of the United