Fahrig v. Milwaukee & Chicago Breweries, Ltd.
Appellate Court of Illinois
Proceeding by stockholder against corporation for accounting and other relief. Error to the Circuit Court of Cook County; the Hon. Frank Baker, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the March term, 1903.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Stein
Plaintiff and defendants in error join in requesting the court to refrain from deciding the demurrer to the bill. We shall therefore assume that it presents a proper case for the interposition of a court of equity.
From the nature of the bill and especially from its prayer it is manifest—and plaintiff in error admits—that the English Company is a necessary party to it and that no relief can be granted unless the company be before the court either in person or by property upon which the decree of the court can operate. Whatever decree the court may render must be binding upon that company by…
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