Ashton v. Penfield
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Buchanan Circuit Court. — Hon. Lucian J. Eastin, Judge. (1) The court erred in appointing a receiver of the Merchants’ Improvement and Investment Company. (a). The petition did-not state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action or entitle the plaintiff to any relief.
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Appeal from Buchanan Circuit Court. — Hon. Lucian J. Eastin, Judge. (1) The court erred in appointing a receiver of the Merchants’ Improvement and Investment Company. (a). The petition did-not state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action or entitle the plaintiff to any relief. Nothing is better settled than that the appointment of a receiver is not the end and object of litigation, but merely a provisional remedy resorted to for the purpose of preserving property involved in litigation, so that the relief awarded by the court, if any, may be effectual. State ex rel. v. Ross, 122 Mo,…
1Opinion of the CourtLamm, J.
From a decree in • the Buchanan Circuit Court at its September term, 1908, overruling the several motions of defendants to revoke an order appointing a temporary receiver for the Merchants’ Improvement .and Investment Company, a corporation (hereinafter, for convenience, called the -M. I. & I. Co.),- finding the allegations of plaintiff’s petition to be true, decreeing that the temporary receiver be made permanent for the purpose of winding up the affairs of the M. I. & I. Co. and distributing its assets, dissolving the M. I. & I. Co., restraining defendants and each of them from collecting…
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