Miller v. Kitchen

Letton, C.

This is an appeal from an interlocutory decree appointing a receiver in a stockholder’s suit. The plaintiff, Rome Miller, is a stockholder in the Kitchen Brothers Hotel Company, and brings the action against James B. Kitchen, as president, and the corporation itself, alleging fraud and mismanagement on the part of the officers of the corporation and praying for an accounting and a receiver, but not asking to wind up the corporate affairs. The findings of fact upon which the receiver was appointed are substantially, though much abridged, as follows: Kitchen Brothers Hotel Company is…