Coxe v. Huntsville Gas Light Co.
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the 'Chancery Court of Madison. Heard before the Hon. W. H. Simpson. On May 15, 1892, the Huntsville Gas Light Company filed the original bill in this case for the purpose, as therein alleged, of obtaining an accounting between the Huntsville Gas Light Company and Robert E. Cose, its president.
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Appeal from the 'Chancery Court of Madison. Heard before the Hon. W. H. Simpson. On May 15, 1892, the Huntsville Gas Light Company filed the original bill in this case for the purpose, as therein alleged, of obtaining an accounting between the Huntsville Gas Light Company and Robert E. Cose, its president. The special prayer of the bill is that the complainant company be declared to have a lien on the stock of said Robert E. Coxe for the payment of any indebtedness it may be shown exists on the part of said Robert E. Coxe to the complainant, company. On December 26, 1893, the complainant…
1Opinion of the CourtTyson, J.
This appeal is prosecuted from a decree refusing to dissolve an injunction on motion. The motion is predicated upon two grounds; the first, on the denials in the answer, and the other for want of equity in the petition, upon which the writ was granted.
The petition was for an injunction pendente lite 'to prevent rendering ineffectual the decretal order directing a reference by the register to state an account between the complainant and the respondents growing out of mismanagement and misappropriation of funds belonging to the complainant corporation by one of the respondents, its president.…
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- New Brighton & New Castle Railroad v. Pittsburgh, Youngstown & Chicago RailroadSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1884
- Coxe v. Huntsville Gas Light Co.Supreme Court of Alabama · 1894
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