Schmidt v. Pritchard
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Linn District Court.— Hon. Wm. G. Thompson, Judge. These two actions were tried together in the district court, and are here submitted upon single abstracts, briefs, and arguments.
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Appeal from Linn District Court.— Hon. Wm. G. Thompson, Judge. These two actions were tried together in the district court, and are here submitted upon single abstracts, briefs, and arguments. The first is an action to compel defendants to issue and deliver to plaintiffs twenty-eight shares of the capital stock of a corporation known as the Le Febure Ledger Company, which it is claimed appellee applied and paid for, or is willing to pay. for, in accordance with the terms of its issue; and the second is an action brought by the Le Febure Ledger Company and its claimed officers and board of…
1Opinion of the CourtDeemer, J.
The case is overburdened with abstracts, amended abstracts, and three large volumes of a typewritten transcript; each and all containing a great deal of immaterial and irrelevant matter. Primarily, the entire controversy is over the control of a corporation known as the Le Febure Ledger Company; most of the stockholders being divided into two hostile camps. It has been with great difficulty that we have extracted what seems to be the material and controlling facts, and, if any mistake be made in the statement of these, it is due to the confused state of the record. The case was argued orally,…
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