Electric Welding Co. v. Prince
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Seventeen actions oe contract, by a corporation organized on May 1,1899, under the companies act of Great Britain, St. 25 & 26 Yict. c. 89, to recover certain sums of money alleged to be due from the several defendants on their respective subscriptions for ordinary shares of the plaintiff’s capital stock.
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Seventeen actions oe contract, by a corporation organized on May 1,1899, under the companies act of Great Britain, St. 25 & 26 Yict. c. 89, to recover certain sums of money alleged to be due from the several defendants on their respective subscriptions for ordinary shares of the plaintiff’s capital stock. Writs dated May 12, 1894. In the Superior Court these cases together with three others were sent to an auditor and later were tried before Hardy, J., who directed verdicts for the defendants, and reported the cases to this court for determination. In a decision, reported in 195 Mass. 242, it…
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, C. J.
These seventeen cases, brought to enforce the same kind of a liability against different defendants, were tried together in the Superior Court and were reported by agreement of the parties for our determination. They, have been before us previously, and the report of them may be found in 195 Mass. 242. At the first trial verdicts for the defendants were ordered, and the cases were reported to this court on questions of law.
There were three counts in the declaration in each case. The verdict was treated as a separate verdict on each count, and the result of the hearing in this court was to…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Churchill v. PalmerMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1874
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