BALTIMORE & POTOMAC R. CO. V. FIFTH BAPTIST CHURCH, 137 U. S. 568 (1890)
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Baltimore & Potomac R. Co. v. Fifth Baptist Church, 137 U.S. 568 (1890)
Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Company v. Fifth Baptist Church
Nos. 121, 122
Argued December 18-19, 1890
Decided January 5, 1891
137 U.S. 568
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT
OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Syllabus
At the trial of an action of tort upon a plea of nul tiel corporation, evidence that the plaintiff, after filing a defective certificate of incorporation under a general corporation law, acted for years as a corporation, and recovered a judgment as such in a similar action against the defendant without any objection made to its capacity to sue is competent and sufficient to prove it a corporation de facto, and therefore entitled to maintain this action.
Misnomer of a corporation plaintiff is pleadable in abatement only, and is waived by pleading to the merits.