Butler v. Harrison Land & Mining Co.
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Crawford Circuit Court. (1) This court approved a judgment like the one in this case in the case of Missouri Lead Mining and Smelting Company v. Reinhard, 114 Mo. 218. In that case the circuit court declared a lien against the property of the debtor corporation, then in the hands of a new corporation, and this court, speaking through Judge Black, approved the action.
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Appeal from Crawford Circuit Court. (1) This court approved a judgment like the one in this case in the case of Missouri Lead Mining and Smelting Company v. Reinhard, 114 Mo. 218. In that case the circuit court declared a lien against the property of the debtor corporation, then in the hands of a new corporation, and this court, speaking through Judge Black, approved the action. (2) Under the facts in this case plaintiff is entitled to recover all the lands embraced in his deed, and to have the transfers, made by the directors of the Nova Scotia Iron Company to themselves, set aside. There…
1Opinion of the CourtRobinson, J.
By this action plaintiff seeks to have set aside and canceled certain deeds to about twelve thousand acres of land in Dent county, made by the Nova Scotia Iron Company, a corporation, to certain of its directors, and by them afterward conveyed to the defendant, the Harrison Land & Mining-Company. Plaintiff, as an after execution creditor of the Nova Scotia Iron Company, sold the land as the property of the Nova Scotia Iron Company, and became the purchaser thereof.
The petition in substance charges that the deed to the Dent county land from the Nova Scotia Iron *472Company was made to Messrs.…
2Cases cited3 opinions
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