Hooper v. General Electric X-Ray Corp.

May 19, 1929, plaintiff, James H. Hooper, filed his amended bill of complaint in the circuit court, alleging that June 16, 1916, he was the owner of 71.8 shares of stock in the Scheidel-Western X-Ray Co., an Illinois corporation; that the certificates representing this stock had been issued by mistake on old blanks printed for the Scheidel-Western X-Ray Coil Co., the former name of the Scheidel-Western X-Ray Co., its name having been changed; that Scheidel-Western X-Ray Co. gave due notice, called a meeting of its stockholders, who agreed upon a plan for the sale of the assets of the…