Willis v. St. Paul Sanitation Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by defendant, E'. L. Mabon, from an order of the District Court of Ramsey County, Hascal R. Brill, J., made October 28, .1892, denying his motion for a new trial. The plaintiff, Elizabeth L. Willis, loaned $2,684.48 to the defendant, St. Paul Sanitation Company, a corporation. She brought this action against the corporation and its stockholders to recover $1,-073.08, the unpaid balance of the money and interest.
1Opinion of the CourtMitchell, J.
This appeal presents no question of any merit.
The action was to recover money loaned to the defendant corporation, and to enforce the individual liability of the defendant stockholders therefor.
*371That the money was loaned to the corporation by either the plaintiff or her husband is not in dispute under the evidence. It was paid into the company’s treasury by the husband as the plaintiff’s money, and at his direction credited to her on its books. He has never made any claim to it, but, on the contrary, insisted on the trial that the money belonged to his wife; and it is no concern of the company…
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