Johnson v. Canfield-Swigart Co.
Appellate Court of Illinois
Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Mastín M. Gbidley, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the October term, 1917.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice McDonald
This appeal brings up for review an order dismissing appellant’s bill of complaint' for want of equity.
The bill was filed by E. H. Johnson, as trustee in bankruptcy of the estate of the Turnbull-Joice Lumber Company, bankrupt, against the Canfield-Swigart Company, a corporation, George W. Swigart, Charles J. Canfield, Charles C. Toung, William H. Turnbull and John K. Joice, and sought for the benefit of its creditors to compel the return of capital amounting to approximately $50,000 alleged to have been wrongfully and fraudulently diverted from the treasury of the said company.
The cause was…
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