Nortmann-Duffke Co. v. Federal Crushed Stone Co.

Wilson, O. J.

Action to enforce constitutional liability of the stockholders in defendant corporation. Certain stockholders appealed from an order of assessment.

Appellants claim that the corporation is a manufacturing corporation within § 3, art. 10, of the state Constitution. The general purpose clause in the articles of incorporation reads:

“The general nature of its business shall be to mine, quarry, cut, saw, crush, finish, set, dress, purchase and prepare for market, stone, marble, limestone and other minerals and manufacture the same into various products thereof, and transport and sell…