Appeal of Rowley
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the Court of Common Pleas No. 2 of Philadelphia county: In equity: Of January Term 1886, No. 168. Appeal by Salmon B. Rowley, the Hero Fruit-Jar Co. and Francis W. Kennedy from the decree of said court, ordering that William Tillyer be admitted as a stockholder in the Hero Fruit Jar Co. William Tillyer filed his bill in equity against Salmon B. Rowley, the Hero Fruit Jar Co. and Francis Kennedy praying that a decree might be entered, compelling the defendants to…
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Appeal from the Court of Common Pleas No. 2 of Philadelphia county: In equity: Of January Term 1886, No. 168. Appeal by Salmon B. Rowley, the Hero Fruit-Jar Co. and Francis W. Kennedy from the decree of said court, ordering that William Tillyer be admitted as a stockholder in the Hero Fruit Jar Co. William Tillyer filed his bill in equity against Salmon B. Rowley, the Hero Fruit Jar Co. and Francis Kennedy praying that a decree might be entered, compelling the defendants to admit him as a stockholder in the Hero Fruit Jar Co. The defendants each filed an answer. An Examiner, James W. Latter,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Trunkey
The bill sets forth, among other things, that the capital stock of the company consists of five thousand shares of the par value of one hundred dollars each; that the plaintiff, as one of the original stockholders, subscribed for one hundred shares, and that the defendants have refused to give him a certificate, and have- confederated to deprive him of his rights as a shareholder.
With reference to that, in the answer, Rowley denies that the plaintiff ever was the real owner of any shares, and says that the plaintiff consented to the use of his name as subscriber for one hundred shares of…
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