One existing under color of law and in pursuance of an effort made in good faith to organize a corporation under the statute; an association of men claiming to be a legally incorporated company, and exercising the powers and functions of a corporation, but without actual lawful authority to do so. Foster v. Hare, 20 Tex. Civ. App. 177, 02 S. W. 541; Attorney General v. Stevens, 1 N. J. Eq. 378, 22 Am. Dec. 520; Manufacturing Co. v. Scho- field, 28 Ind. App. 95, 02 N. E. 100; Cedar Rapids Water Co. v. Cedar Rapids, 118 Iowa, 234, 91 N. W. 1081; Johnson v. Okerstrom, 70 Minn. 303, 73 N. W. 147; Tulare Irrig. Dist. v. Shepard, 185 U. S. 1, 22 Sup. Ct. 531, 46 L. Ed. 773; In re Gibbs’ Estate, 157 Pa. 59, 27 Atl. 383, 22 L. R. A. 276; Pape v. Bank, 20 Kan. 440, 27 Am. Rep. 183.
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