Bolton v. Nebraska Chicory Co.

Pound, C.

This is a suit upon a subscription to stock, and the sole question involved is whether the plaintiff corporation is a manufacturing corporation, within the purview of section 37, chapter 16, Compiled Statutes (Annotated Statutes, 4138). A question of this sort is not to be settled entirely by the construction given to the phrase “manufacturing corporation” in statutes of other states dealing with different subjects. The intention of the legislature in this particular case is to be sought for, and the policy and purpose of this particular act to be considered. The decisions in which…