Wells v. Green Bay & Mississippi Canal Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Milwaukee county: D. H. JonnsoN, Circuit Judge. This action was brought against the corporation defendant and its directors, to compel the delivery to the plaintiff of ninety-two shares of the stock of the company.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Milwaukee county: D. H. JonnsoN, Circuit Judge. This action was brought against the corporation defendant and its directors, to compel the delivery to the plaintiff of ninety-two shares of the stock of the company. The amended complaint stated, in substance, that the plaintiff, with Horatio Seymour and others named, became the purchasers of all the rights, property, and franchises of the Eox & "Wisconsin Improvement Company, under and in pursuance of ch. 2S9, Laws of 1861; ch. 535, Laws of 1865; ch. 572, P. & L. Laws of 1866,— which company had…
1Opinion of the CourtPinney, J.
1. The vital point in this case is whether the plaintiff’s ninety-two shares of stock in the defendant corporation were full-paid when the corporators had conveyed or caused to be conveyed to the company the property they had purchased at the foreclosure sale, and had executed the declaration and agreement of September 11, 1866, stating and defining their respective contributions to and proportionate interests in the property and franchises of the company. The plaintiff’s interest was therein stated to be of the entire property, or three shares, equal to ninety-two shares of the capital stock…
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