Babcock v. Farwell

The bill in this case was filed August 12, 1909, in the Circuit Court, while an appeal from the decree of the Superior Court dismissing a similar bill was pending in the Supreme Court on an appeal from this court. Both suits are stockholders’ suits brought by complainant Babcock as the holder of shares of the Capitol Freehold Land and Investment Company, Limited, an English corporation, against the corporation, the executors of the will of John V. Farwell, the surviving executors of the will of Charles B. Farwell and the devisees and legatees under his will, to enforce the right of the…