Adler v. Seaman
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Missouri; David P. Dyer and John C. Pollock, Judges. Suits by John W. Seaman against Richard McCulloch and others and by Samuel W. Adler against United Railways Company of St. Rouis and others. From an order consolidating the two causes and extending the receivership in the Adler suit to the consolidated cause, Adler appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
STONE, Circuit Judge.
January 7, 1918, John W. Seaman, a preferred stockholder of the United Railways Company of St. Rouis, filed, his bill, charging waste and maladministration by certain present and past directors of that company, wherein he sought the recovery of the sums so wasted and the removal of the directors. An amended bill and a supplemental bill were later filed, and the cause brought to issue thereon by answer filed February 7, 1919. February IS, 1919, complainant filed his motion for the appointment of a receiver, which resulted in an order, February 17, 1919, appointing a master…
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