Smith ex rel. Plummer v. Thompson

This is an appeal from a judgment sustaining a demurrer to a declaration in case.

The declaration alleges, in substance, that on the 27th of December, 1889, Smith owned 8,000 shares in the George T. Smith Middlings Purifier Company of Jackson, of the par value of $200,000, and which represented two-thirds of the entire capital, and that the defendants owned a majority of the stock of the Knickerbocker Conrpany; that the two companies were engaged in making and selling machines known as “purifiers,” “reels,” and “scalpers,” used in manufacturing flour, and were active competitors; ■ that the…