Habich v. Folger
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the ¡Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts; the case being thus: The Revised Statutes of New York authorize the courts of the State, upon a corporation’s mismanaging its affairs by doing certain things specified by the statutes, and plainly inconsistent' with corporate duty, to' declare it, on the petition of a corporator, dissolved,, and to appoint receivers to take charge of and to distribute its assets.
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Error to the ¡Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts; the case being thus: The Revised Statutes of New York authorize the courts of the State, upon a corporation’s mismanaging its affairs by doing certain things specified by the statutes, and plainly inconsistent' with corporate duty, to' declare it, on the petition of a corporator, dissolved,, and to appoint receivers to take charge of and to distribute its assets. Iu professed execution of the power thus given, the Supreme Court of New York did, on the 2d of February, 1866, declare that the Columbian Insui’ance Company, a corporation of…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Hunt
delivered the opinion.of the court.
The record of the scire facias proceedings upon which the ease was argued presents some questions requiring careful examination.
If we correctly apprehend the position of the case as stated in the record in the suit in which judgment was rendered,— «and which was handed to the court at the close of the argument, with the consent of both sides that it should be considered by us, — there can be no difficulty in this case in reaching a correct conclusion.
• In his first point the plaintiff in error says: “ The only errors relied on are that-the court erred in…
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