Boyett v. Hahn
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Jefferson Chancery Court. Heard before Hon. A. H. BENNERS. Bill by Mrs. I. E. Boyett against William Hahn and others, to declare complainant the owner of one-half the capital stock of the Plainview Land Company, and for a sale of the assets of said company for a division. From a decree sustaining demurrer, complainant appeals. The original bill alleges: (1) The parties.
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Appeal from Jefferson Chancery Court. Heard before Hon. A. H. BENNERS. Bill by Mrs. I. E. Boyett against William Hahn and others, to declare complainant the owner of one-half the capital stock of the Plainview Land Company, and for a sale of the assets of said company for a division. From a decree sustaining demurrer, complainant appeals. The original bill alleges: (1) The parties. (2) That William Hahn and J. Standish Clark are over 21 years of age, Clark living in Alabama, and Hahn being a nonresident, and that the Plainview Land Company is a corporation doing business in Birmingham, Ala.…
1Opinion of the Court
THOMAS, J.(1) When the contract of the parties provides no method of enforcing or foreclosing a lien, a court of equity in the exercise of its original jurisdiction may protect and foreclose such lien. — 1 Pom. Eq. Jur. §§ 165-167; Averyt Drug Co. v. Ely-Robertson-Barlow Drug Co., 194 Ala. 507, 69 South. 931.(2) Exhibit A is a mortgage on Hahn’s stock or interest in the corporation. — Campbell v. Woodstock I. Co., 83 Ala. 351, 3 South. 369; Gilmer v. Morris, 80 Ala. 78, 60 Am. Rep. 85; Ellington v. Charleston, 51 Ala. 166.(3) The complainant has the right, under the averments of her bill, to…
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- Averyt Drug Co. v. Ely-Robertson-Barlow Drug Co.Supreme Court of Alabama · 1915
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