Hundley v. Hewitt
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Jefferson Chancery Court. Heard before Hon. A. H. Benners. Bill by R. G. Hewitt, as receiver of a dissolved and insolvent corporation, against Oscar R. Hundley, to enforce an unpaid stock subscription. From a decree overruling demurrer to the bill, respondent appeals. The fifth and eighth paragraphs of the bill sufficiently appear. The third paragraph sets up the declaration of dissolution of the corporation, and the appointment of Hewitt as receiver.
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Appeal from Jefferson Chancery Court. Heard before Hon. A. H. Benners. Bill by R. G. Hewitt, as receiver of a dissolved and insolvent corporation, against Oscar R. Hundley, to enforce an unpaid stock subscription. From a decree overruling demurrer to the bill, respondent appeals. The fifth and eighth paragraphs of the bill sufficiently appear. The third paragraph sets up the declaration of dissolution of the corporation, and the appointment of Hewitt as receiver. The sixth paragraph sets up the subscribing by Hundley in its original articles of incorporation for 140 shares of the capital…
1Opinion of the CourtGardner, J.
The bill in this case is filed by the appellee as receiver for the Sun Life Insurance Company of America, for the purpose of subjecting the unpaid subscription of appellant, a stockholder in said insurance company, to the payment of debts due by said company. The bill shows the organization of the Sun Life Insurance Company of America as an Alabama corporation on October 4, 1913, and its dissolution by a decree of the city court of Birmingham on December 22, 1914, in a suit wherein the state of Alabama, upon the relation of the Attorney General, was complainant and said corporation was…
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