Great Western Min. & Mfg. Co. v. Harris
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Vermont. This cause comes here by cross-appeals from a decree of the United States Court for the District of Vermont in favor of the complainant for $15,000, and dismissing all the other claims made in a bill brought in the name of the Great Western Mining & Manufacturing Company, a citizen of Kentucky, by L. C. Black, its receiver, by virtue of the authority vested in him under an order of the United…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Vermont. This cause comes here by cross-appeals from a decree of the United States Court for the District of Vermont in favor of the complainant for $15,000, and dismissing all the other claims made in a bill brought in the name of the Great Western Mining & Manufacturing Company, a citizen of Kentucky, by L. C. Black, its receiver, by virtue of the authority vested in him under an order of the United States Circuit Court for the District of Kentucky, appointing him receiver of the property and assets of said company, and…
1Opinion of the Court
TOWNSEND, Circuit Judge.
The complainant, a Kentucky corporation, by this bill asks for an accounting and damages from the -estate of defendants’ testator, B. D. Harris, who was a resident of Vermont, and was an officer, director, and stockholder in said corporation from 1883 to 1892. Other parties were named defendants in the bill, but no process was issued against them, and no other defendant appeared.
As found by the court below:
“This suit is not brought upon any statute of Kentucky, but, like Briggs v. Spaulding, 141 U. S. 132, 11 Sup. Ct. 924, 35 L. Ed. 662, is founded upon the common-law…
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