French v. Gifford
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from, Scott District Court. On the third day of January, 1870, the plaintiffs filed in the Scott district court a petition, alleging that the Davenport Savings Institution is an incorporated company, with headquarters at the city of Davenport, and that Edwin Smith is president, James Armstrong, vice-president, Ira M.Gifford, treasurer, and Hugo Schmidt, secretary; and that the president, vice-president, treasurer, and August Warnebold and Jonas Thompson had, during…
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Appeal from, Scott District Court. On the third day of January, 1870, the plaintiffs filed in the Scott district court a petition, alleging that the Davenport Savings Institution is an incorporated company, with headquarters at the city of Davenport, and that Edwin Smith is president, James Armstrong, vice-president, Ira M.Gifford, treasurer, and Hugo Schmidt, secretary; and that the president, vice-president, treasurer, and August Warnebold and Jonas Thompson had, during the year 1&70, composed the investment committee. The petition alleges that the capital stock is '$500,000, divided into…
1Opinion of the CourtDay, J.
l. equity corpora--' tion. —I. The question which, first presents itself for our consideration is as to the nature and extent of the jurisdiction of a court of equity over a corporation, at the suit of a stockholder therein, The caseS; perhaps, cannot all be fully harmonized, but as to most of them, it is believed, the conflict, upon examination, will' be found to be more apparent than real.
In the case of the Attorney-General v. The Utica Ins. Co., to which our attention has been directed by appellant, an information was -filed by the attorney-general, ex officio, against the defendants,…
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