Mann v. Cooke
Supreme Court of Connecticut
This was a bill in chancery, brought by John T. Mann, receiver of the Canajoharie and Catskill Rail-road Company, against Annie E. Cooke, executrix of the last will and testament of Edward P. Cooke, deceased; praying for a decree ordering her to pay to the plaintiff the amount remaining due and unpaid upon forty shares of the stock of said company, held by said E. P. Cooke, in his life-time, but now belonging to his estate.
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This was a bill in chancery, brought by John T. Mann, receiver of the Canajoharie and Catskill Rail-road Company, against Annie E. Cooke, executrix of the last will and testament of Edward P. Cooke, deceased; praying for a decree ordering her to pay to the plaintiff the amount remaining due and unpaid upon forty shares of the stock of said company, held by said E. P. Cooke, in his life-time, but now belonging to his estate. The original charter of this company, was granted, by the legislature of the state of New-York, April 19th, 1830. It provided, that the capital stock of the company should…
1Opinion of the Court
Church, Ch. J.
The object of this application is, to compel the executrix of E. P. Cooke, deceased, to pay to the plaintiff, as receiver, appointed under the laws of the state of New-York, the balance due for stock subscribed, by the deceased, to the capital of the Canajoharie and Gatskill Railroad Company, to whom the whole assets and credits of that company have been assigned.
Every thing which appertains to the rights of the plaintiff, or fixes the obligation of the defendant, has transpired in the state of New-York, of which state all the parties, then in interest, were citizens.
The charter…
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