Ohio & Mississippi Railroad v. Wheeler
Supreme Court of the United States
Oil a certificate of division of opinion between tbe judges of the Circuit Court of the United States for the district of Indiana. This was assumpsit brought, in the Circuit Court of tho' United States for the district of Indiana, against Wheeler, a citizen of that State, to recover the amount due on his subj scription to the stock of the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad Company.
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Oil a certificate of division of opinion between tbe judges of the Circuit Court of the United States for the district of Indiana. This was assumpsit brought, in the Circuit Court of tho' United States for the district of Indiana, against Wheeler, a citizen of that State, to recover the amount due on his subj scription to the stock of the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad Company. The declaration described the plaintiffs as “The President and Directors of thé Ohio and Mississippi Railroad Company, a corporation created by the laws of the States of Indiana and Ohio, and having its principal place…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Chief Justice TANEY.. This action was brought in - the Circuit Court of -.the United States for the district of Indiana, to recover $2,400, with ten per cent, damages, which' the plaintiffs alleged to be. due for fifty shares of the capital stock of the company, subscribed by the defendant; -
The declaration-state that the,plaintiffs are “a corporation, created by the laws of the States of Indiana and Ohio, having its principal place of! business in Cincinnati, in the State of: Ohio; that the corporation is a citizen’of the State'of'Ohio* and Henry-D. Wheeler, the defendant,-is a citizen…
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