Keiser v. Reading Suburban Real Estate Co.
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 216, Oct. T., 1909, by plaintiff, from decree of C. P. Berks Co., Equity Docket, 1906, No. 906, on bill in equity in case of David H. Keiser v. The Reading Suburban Real Estate Company, Thomas P. Merritt, Albert Thalheimer, Levi W. Men-gel and Hannah Keiser. Bill in equity for partition and an accounting.
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Appeal, No. 216, Oct. T., 1909, by plaintiff, from decree of C. P. Berks Co., Equity Docket, 1906, No. 906, on bill in equity in case of David H. Keiser v. The Reading Suburban Real Estate Company, Thomas P. Merritt, Albert Thalheimer, Levi W. Men-gel and Hannah Keiser. Bill in equity for partition and an accounting. Before Endlich, P. J. The bill alleged that the plaintiff and the four individual defendants had been substantially the only stockholders of the Reading Suburban Real Estate Company each owning about one-fifth of the stock; that the corporation was the owner of sundry tracts of…
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Rice, P. J.,
Adopting substantially the language of appellant’s abstract, the bill alleged: that the plaintiff and the four individual defendants had been substantially the only stockholders of the Reading Suburban Real Estate Company, each owning about one-fifth of the stock; that the corporation was the owner of sundry tracts of land; that the plaintiff and the four individual defendants also jointly owned other tracts of land, each owning one-fifth; that on May 31, 1901, the corporation and the five individuals *139entered into an agreement that all the lands owned by the corporation…
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