Wheaton v. Spooner
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by H. A. Spooner et al. from the judgment of the District Court of Hennepin County, Pond, J., entered September 21, 1892, directing the Deceiver, Weed Munro, to pay $700 to George A. Wheaton et al. On July 29, 1889, H. A. Spooner recovered judgment against the Bay St. Louis Syndicate, a corporation, for $1,239.68. Execution was returned unsatisfied.
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Appeal by H. A. Spooner et al. from the judgment of the District Court of Hennepin County, Pond, J., entered September 21, 1892, directing the Deceiver, Weed Munro, to pay $700 to George A. Wheaton et al. On July 29, 1889, H. A. Spooner recovered judgment against the Bay St. Louis Syndicate, a corporation, for $1,239.68. Execution was returned unsatisfied. Spooner then brought an action under 1878 G. S. ch. 76, against that corporation and its stockholders to sequester its property, and enforce the liability of its stockholders for the payment of its debts. In that action Weed Munro was on…
1Opinion of the CourtDickinson, J.
The matters here in controversy were presented to the district court upon an agreed statement of facts, upon which judgment was rendered determining the rights of the respective parties. This is am appeal from that judgment.
In July, 1889, in an action by the defendant Spooner against a corporation, — the Bay St. Louis Syndicate, — judgment was awarded in his favor for the recovery of a specified sum of money. Thereafter he, as such judgment creditor, prosecuted an action, in his own behalf as well as for the benefit of other creditors, against the corporation and its stockholders, under 1878…
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