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 RART I.] CONSTRUCTION OF CORPORATE POWERS. [§ 137. mise them, 1 and refer matters to arbitration. 2 A corporation may sue to recover damages for a libel against it in its business; 3 to restrain a nuisance on its property; 4 a corpora- to enjoin others from using its corporate name to g^ 10. the injury of its trade; 5 or, in admiralty, to recover for services rendered as a salvor. 6 Pleading the general issue admits the capacity of a corporation plaintiff to sue, and re- lieves it from proving its corporate existence; 7 and going to indebtedness to it, and may prose- cute the same. Bailey v. Malheur Irr. Co., 36 Or. 544. iSee First Nat. Bk. t:. Nat. Ex- change Bk., 92 U. S. 122; Stewart v. Hoyt, 111 U. S. 373. A corporation may confess judgment. Prouty v. Prouty, etc., Shoe Co., 155 Pa. St. 112; Electric Lighting Co. v. Leiter, 19 Dis. Col. 575; Snyder Bros. v. Bailey, 165 111. 447. 2 Alexandria Canal Co. v. Swann, 5 How. 83; see Day v. Essex County Bank, 13 Vt. 97; Boston and L. R. R. Co. v. Nashua, etc., R. R. Co., 139 Mass. 463; compare Sawyer v. Winnegance Mill Co., 26 Me. 122. 3 Trenton Mut. Life Ins. Co. v. Perrine, 23 N. J. L. (3 Zab.) 402; Hahnemannian Life Ins. Co. v. Beebe, 48 111. 87; Shoe and Leather Bk. v. Thompson, 23 How. Pr. ( N. Y. ) 253; Knickerbocker Life Ins. Co. v. Ecclesine, 42 How. Pr. (N. Y.) 201; Same o. Same, 2 J. & S. (N. Y. Super. Ct.) 76; Metropolitan Omni- bus Co. v. Hawkins, 4 H. & N. 87; Morton County Bank v. Day, 73 Minn. 195; Morrison-Jewell Filtra- tion Co. v. Lingaine, 19 R. I. 316. 4 Central Bridge Co. v. Lowell, 4 Gray, 474. 6 Newby v. Oregon Cent. R. Co., Dearly, 609; Holmes v. Holmes, MTg Co., 37 Conn. 278; Higgins Co. v. Higgins Soap Co., 144 N. Y. 462; of. Hygeia Ice Co. v. N. Y. Hygeia Ice Co., 140 N. Y. 94; Lamb Knit Goods Co. o. Lamb Glove & Mitten Co., 120 Mich. 159; Red Polled Cattle Club v. Red Polled Cattle Club, 108 Iowa, 105. Not, however, if the plaintiff corporation is engaged in an illegal business. Portsmouth Brewing Co. v. Portsmouth B. & B. Co., 67 N. H. 433. It seems a foreign corporation cannot enjoin a domestic corporation from using the same name. Hazleton B. Co. v. Hazleton T. B. Co., 142 111. 494. But a domes- tic corporation may enjoin a foreign corporation. Amer. Clay M'f'g Co. v. Idem, 198 Pa. St. 189. An indi- vidual may restrain a corporation from using a name which violates his rights. Armington et al. v. Palmer, 21 R. I. 109. A corporation may recover damages for false repre- sentations, acted upon by it, al- though such representations were made to individuals before the formation of the corporation; such individuals subsequently becoming the sole stockholders and directors of the corporation. Scolfield Gear & Pulley Co. v. Scolfield, 71 Conn. 2. 8 The Camanche, 8 Wall. 448; The Blackwall, 10 Wall. 1. A corporation may acquire a lien for materials fur- nished as an individual. Fagan v. Boyle Ice Machine Co., 65 Tex. 324. 7 Morse Arms M'f'g Co. v. United States, 16 Ct. of Claims, 296; Mc- Intire v. Preston, 10 111. 48; Phoenix Bank o. Curtis, 14 Conn. 437; Prince v. Commercial Bank, 1 Ala. 241; 107