Van Kirk v. Adler
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal fyom the Chancery Court of Escambia. Pleard before the Hon. Jere N. Williams. The bill in this case was filed by the appellant against the apuellee, on November 12, 1894. It appears from the statements of the bill that the Van Kirk Land & Construction Company was a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Alabama, with a capital stock of one thousand dollars, and proposed to purchase and did purchase, from the Mobile & Girard Railroad Company, more than…
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Appeal fyom the Chancery Court of Escambia. Pleard before the Hon. Jere N. Williams. The bill in this case was filed by the appellant against the apuellee, on November 12, 1894. It appears from the statements of the bill that the Van Kirk Land & Construction Company was a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Alabama, with a capital stock of one thousand dollars, and proposed to purchase and did purchase, from the Mobile & Girard Railroad Company, more than one hundred and fifty thousand acres of land, at and for the price of one hundred and forty-two thousand, five hundred…
1Opinion of the Court
BRICKELL, O. J.
The original bill, filed by the appellant, has for its objects, the injunction of the execution of a decree of the court of chancery, foreclosing a mortgage on lands, executed by the Van Kirk Land & Construction Company, a corporation orginized and existing under the laws of this State, and the reopening of a staked account, the origin and basis of the mortgage debt, because of supposed false or over charges. The chancellor, in term time, sustained a motion to dismiss the bill for want of equity, offering the complainant leave to amend, which was declined, the bill was…
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