Andrews v. Sumter Commercial & Real Estate Co.
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Wirson, J., Sumter, December, 1900. Action by W. T. Andrews against Sumter Commercial and Real Estate Company, its officers and majority stockholders.
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Before Wirson, J., Sumter, December, 1900. Action by W. T. Andrews against Sumter Commercial and Real Estate Company, its officers and majority stockholders. Defendants appeal from temporary injunction order of Judge Wilson and order of Mr. Justice Woods modifying the order of Judge Wilson. cite: Circuit Judge at chambers is without power to make an order permanent and perpetual in its nature on ex parte application: Con., Art. I, Sec. 5; Code of Proc. 240, 244. Order dispossesses grantee without hearing: 9 S. C. 303; 27 S. C. 408; 37 S. C. 227; 12 Rich. Eq. 108; 14 Rich. L. 96. The order has…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Justice Hydrick.
The plaintiff, a minority stockholder of the defendant corporation, Sumter Commercial and Real Estate Company, brought this- action to enjoin the sale of the real estate of the corporation to E. R. Wilson, another of the stockholders.
The allegations of the complaint are that the company owns a lot in the city of Sumter, with buildings thereon, worth over $20,000; that defendant, Thomas Wilson, having previously bought a majority o-f the stock, had himself and his co-defendants elected directors and officers of the company at the…
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