Barber v. Morgan
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action by a judgment creditor of a Connecticut corporation against one of its nonresident stockholders who was alleged to have assented to a reduction of its capital stock whereby it was rendered insolvent, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County and tried to the court, Williams, J., after the decease of the original defendant and the revival of the case against his personal representatives; facts found and judgment rendered for the defendants, and appeal by the…
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Action by a judgment creditor of a Connecticut corporation against one of its nonresident stockholders who was alleged to have assented to a reduction of its capital stock whereby it was rendered insolvent, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County and tried to the court, Williams, J., after the decease of the original defendant and the revival of the case against his personal representatives; facts found and judgment rendered for the defendants, and appeal by the plaintiff.
1Opinion of the CourtThayer, J.
The International Company of Mexico, a corporation incorporated by Special Act of the legislature of this State and located in Hartford, but carrying on its business and having large and varied interests in the Republic of Mexico, became, financially embarrassed and unable to continue its operations there, whereupon an English company, under the name of the Mexican Land and Colonization Company, was organized under the laws of Great Britain, and all the property, assets and good will of the first-named company, which we will call the American Company, were conveyed and turned over to- the…
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