Thompson v. Brownlie

Opinion of the Court by

Judge O’Rear

Reversing.

■ In this suit to wind np the affairs of a mining corporation, the petition failed to describe the real estate owned by it. A judgment was entered appointing a receiver to take charge of all the prop*687erty of the corporation, real and personal, and to sell so much of it as was necessary to pay its debts, and distribute the remainder among the stockholders. The amount of the indebtedness had .rot been ascertained, nor was the property described in the judgment of sale. At the sale appellee McNeil became the purchaser. The receiver’s report of sale to…