77 Miss. 155 | Miss. | 1899
delivered the opinion of the court.
The appellee company was organized under the revised statutes of 1870 of the state of Louisiana, in which there is no reference to building associations. The statute authorizes any six persons to subscribe themselves into a corporation, with the ordinary powers of a corporation, and with power “to make by-laws for the proper management and regulation of the affairs of the corporation as may be necessary.” In pursuance of such statutory authority, the subscribers, Jules A. Blane and nine others, on the 10th of May, 1890, formed themselves into a corporation under the name of the New South Building and Loan Association, with power, among other things, to hold, receive, lease, purchase, improve, sell, convey, mortgage, and pledge property, real and personal, to borrow money, lend money on security, and to make and alter its by-laws at pleasure. . Said subscribers constituted' said corporation “to carry on business, and to establish branches in any parish of Lo-’-;-'-iana, or in any county of the United States.” They provided that the series stock fund of said corporation shall be used for the purchase and sale of real estate, for the building, renting, and selling of homesteads and other real estate, and for effecting loans upon mortgage security within the United States of America. They fixed the capital stock of said corporation at
The contract of Sokoloski with the New South Building & Loan Association provides for premiums, not for one gross sum in consequence of open bidding for the advancement, but for a fixed montly premium of six per centum, to be paid each successive month until the loan shall be liquidated, and which fixed premiums, at the rate which the association’s answer shows the loan is being liquidated, must, in the aggregate, at the maturity of the stock, exceed fifty per centum of the loan. We find it hard to perceive how the taking of six per .centum per
The decree of the chancery court is reversed, and the case is remanded, to he proceeded in according to the principles herein announced.