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 and made it the duty of every prosecuting attorney to see that such conditions were fulfilled, or the corporation barred from the exercise of any corporate franchise within this state. This we believe to have been the remedy, and the only remedy, in the mind of the legislature. These respondents dealt with appellant as a corporation. They received and retained its property, and executed their obligation to pay for the same. The corporation has fulfilled its contract, and now respondents, without offering to return the consideration for their note, ask that they be released from the performance of their contract, for no reason other than the failure of appellant to perform a duty that it owed to the state at large, but the nonperformance of which in no manner prejudiced respondents. We are unwilling to ingraft upon a silent statute a consequence so inequitable. Upon both principle and authority, respondents are precluded from raising the question of noncompliance upon the part of appellant with the provisions of said § § 3190, 3192, Comp. Laws. The facts alleged in the answer did not invalidate the contract, and the demurrer should have been sustained upon that ground.

It will not be necessary nor proper, in view of what we have said upon the second assignment of error, for us to discuss the constitutional question raised by the third assignment.

The District Court is ordered to vacate its order heretofore entered, and enter an order sustaining the demurrer.

Reversed. All concur.

(54 N. W. Rep. 544.)