Legal Opinion

Grant v. Lookout Mountain Co.

Tennessee Supreme Court

Decided October 25, 1894PublishedCited by 38 opinions

PROM HAMILTON. Appeal from Chancery Court of Hamilton County. T- M. McConnell, Ch.

1Opinion of the CourtMcAlisteR, J.

The single question presented for determination in this cause is whether complainants below are entitled to have counsel fees allowed and declared a lien on the property recovered. The proceedings in which the professional services were rendered were commenced by’ M. G-rant and others, minority stockholders in the Lookout Mountain Company, against said corporation and certain officers and directors therein, to enjoin a sale of all the real and personal property of the corporation to a Boston syndicate, to be paid for in bonds covering the property of defendant corporation and two other…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Trustees v. GreenoughSupreme Court of the United States · 1882
  2. Central Railroad & Banking Co. of Ga. v. PettusSupreme Court of the United States · 1885
  3. Meddaugh v. WilsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1894

3Cited by38 opinions

  1. Ramey v. Cincinnati Enquirer, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1974
  2. Hempstead v. Meadville Theological SchoolSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1926
  3. Southern v. Beeler, Atty.-Gen.Tennessee Supreme Court · 1946
  4. House v. Estate of EdmondsonTennessee Supreme Court · 2008
  5. Forrester v. Boston & Montana Consolidated Copper & Silver Mining Co.Montana Supreme Court · 1904

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