Erie Coal & Coke Co. v. Deal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 136, Oct. T., 1914, by plaintiffs, from decree of C. P. Butler Co., June T., 1914, No. 2, in equity, refusing an injunction in case of the Erie Coal and Coke Company, a Corporation, and Perry O. Miller, H. L. Miller, Fred Rowe, E. M. Beachley, W. N. Moser, C. J. Rowe, and J. C. Reed, Directors of the said Erie Coal and Coke Company v. Levi Deal. Bill in equity for an injunction. Motion to continue preliminary injunction.
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Appeal, No. 136, Oct. T., 1914, by plaintiffs, from decree of C. P. Butler Co., June T., 1914, No. 2, in equity, refusing an injunction in case of the Erie Coal and Coke Company, a Corporation, and Perry O. Miller, H. L. Miller, Fred Rowe, E. M. Beachley, W. N. Moser, C. J. Rowe, and J. C. Reed, Directors of the said Erie Coal and Coke Company v. Levi Deal. Bill in equity for an injunction. Motion to continue preliminary injunction. Before Reiber, J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the facts. The court dissolved the preliminary injunction. Plaintiffs appealed. Error assigned was the…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Potter,
This was a bill in equity filed in the Court of Common Pleas of Butler County by the Erie Coal and Coke Company, a corporation, and seven individuals who> are named as directors of the company, against Levi Deal. *60It was averred in the bill that the individual complainants were the officers and directors of the company, and that they had been duly elected on August 23, 1913, to serve for the ensuing year; that on September 24, 1913, the board of directors of the company discharged Levi Deal from the position of general manager and appointed two of the directors'to…
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- Deal v. Erie Coal & Coke Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1915