Wilson v. St. Louis & Western Railroad
Supreme Court of Missouri
Division One, Appeal from St. Louis City Circuit Court. (1) The acts claimed to have been done by the defendants Dodson, Owen and Diffenderfer — save the calling of meetings by Dodson — were acts within the scope of their duties as directors, and didn’t entitle them to any compensation, save that provided by section 5, of the act of incorporation of the company, i. e., one dollar and fifty cents per day, while the board is in session, and ten cents per mile from home to the…
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Division One, Appeal from St. Louis City Circuit Court. (1) The acts claimed to have been done by the defendants Dodson, Owen and Diffenderfer — save the calling of meetings by Dodson — were acts within the scope of their duties as directors, and didn’t entitle them to any compensation, save that provided by section 5, of the act of incorporation of the company, i. e., one dollar and fifty cents per day, while the board is in session, and ten cents per mile from home to the place of meeting and return. Cheeney v. Co., 68 111. 571; Loan Association v. Steimnets, 29 Pa. St. 534; Lunstonv. Gas…
1Opinion of the CourtMacearlane, J.
This is a suit in equity by plaintiff as a judgment creditor of the St. Louis and Western Railroad Company, to recover from certain stockholders therein, the par value of their stock which, it is alleged in the bill, was issued to and accepted by them, but for which they had never paid. The suit *51was commenced on the seventeenth day of October, 1888, in the circuit court of St. Louis county. On the second day of February, 1891, the fourth amended petition was filed, upon which the case was eventually tried.
That petition charged that the Laclede and Ft. Scott Railroad Company was organized…
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