Lehman, Durr & Co. v. Glenn
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Montgomery. Tried before tbe Hon. John T\ Hubbard. This action was brought by John Glenn, suing as trustee under appointment by the Chancery Court of the city of Richmond, Virginia, against the partners composing the firm of Lehman, Durr & Co.; was commenced on the 19th November, 1886, and sought to compel the payment of the defendants’ unpaid subscription for stock in the National Express Company (or National Express and Transportation…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Montgomery. Tried before tbe Hon. John T\ Hubbard. This action was brought by John Glenn, suing as trustee under appointment by the Chancery Court of the city of Richmond, Virginia, against the partners composing the firm of Lehman, Durr & Co.; was commenced on the 19th November, 1886, and sought to compel the payment of the defendants’ unpaid subscription for stock in the National Express Company (or National Express and Transportation Company, its amended name), a corporation chartered under the laws of Virginia; said unpaid subscriptions, amounting to fifty…
1Opinion of the Court
SOMERVILLE, J. —
This case is analogous, in its leading facts, to Glenn v. Semple, 80 Ala. 159; s. c., 60 Amer Rep. 92. Its merits may be disposed of by a few propositions abundantly supported by authorities precisely in point.
1. The decree of the Chancery Court of the City of Richmond, rendered on the fourteenth day of December, 1880, on a creditors’bill previously filed in December, 1871, against the National Express and Transportation Company and the trustees of that corporation, is not only admissible as evidence in this case against the defendants, as stockholders in said company, but is…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Sanger v. UptonSupreme Court of the United States · 1875
- Hawkins v. GlennSupreme Court of the United States · 1889
- Turnbull v. PaysonSupreme Court of the United States · 1877
- Glenn v. WilliamsCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1883
- Great Western Telegraph Co. v. GrayIllinois Supreme Court · 1887
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3Cited by10 opinions
- Semple v. GlennSupreme Court of Alabama · 1890
- Baines v. BabcockCalifornia Supreme Court · 1892
- Washington Savings Bank v. Butchers & Drovers' BankSupreme Court of Missouri · 1891
- Harris v. Gateway Land Co.Supreme Court of Alabama · 1900
- Mitchell v. BowlesCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1923
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