Legal Opinion
H F G Co. v. Pioneer Pub. Co.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided May 23, 1947No. 9249PublishedCited by 35 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MAJOR, Circuit Judge.
This action was instituted by the plaintiff, a Delaware corporation, as a stockholder’s suit to assert the rights by derivative action of Pioneer Publishing Company, an Illinois corporation, in and to certain monies alleged to have been embezzled by Teller MacArthur, a defendant and the president of defendant corporation, and certain shares of stock alleged to have been illegally issued to said Teller MacArthur. Jurisdiction was predicated upon diversity of citizenship with the requisite allegation as to the amount in controversy.
The appeal comes from the order of the…
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