Russell v. Tennessee & Kentucky Tobacco Co.

The suit first mentioned in the caption of this opinion was sustained as a general creditors’ proceeding against the Tennessee & Kentucky Tobacco Company. The bill in the other suit mentioned was treated as a cross-bill in the former suit; and therein, among other things, it was sought in behalf of the creditors to hold S. R. Russell liable (1) for unpaid capital stock; (2) incurring indebtedness in excess of the paid-in capital; and (3) on the ground that the defendant corporation was a sham and a fraud and was so operated. None of these claims was sustained against him, either by the…