Brooks v. Nevada Nickel Syndicate
Nevada Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court of the State of Nevada, Ormsby county; C. E. Mach, District Judge: Action by Charles E. Brooks against the Nevada Nickel Syndicate, Limited, and another. From a judgment for plaintiff, the Nevada Nickel Syndicate appeals. The facts sufficiently appear in the opinion. I. The district court did not have jurisdiction of the Syndicate, and the judgment and decree are null and void. No summons was ever issued in this action.
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Appeal from the District Court of the State of Nevada, Ormsby county; C. E. Mach, District Judge: Action by Charles E. Brooks against the Nevada Nickel Syndicate, Limited, and another. From a judgment for plaintiff, the Nevada Nickel Syndicate appeals. The facts sufficiently appear in the opinion. I. The district court did not have jurisdiction of the Syndicate, and the judgment and decree are null and void. No summons was ever issued in this action. Section 13, article VI, of the constitution of this state, provides: “The style of process shall be ‘The State of Nevada,’ and all prosecutions…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Massey, J.:
This action was instituted by the respondent, a stockholder, for the benefit of all the stockholders of the National Nickel Company, a corporation, organized and existing under the laws of the State of Illinois, against the appellant, a corporation, organized and existing under the laws of the kingdom of Great Britain, for the purpose of setting aside a certain alleged conveyance made by the president and secretary of the National Nickel Company to the appellant, of certain mining claims in Churchill county, Nevada, which conveyance is alleged to have been made without…
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