Legal Opinion

Aldine Manufacturing Co. v. Phillips

Michigan Supreme Court

Decided September 20, 1898PublishedCited by 14 opinions

Appeal from Kent; Grove, J. Bill by the Aldine Manufacturing Company against James T. Phillips to foreclose a lien upon stock. Prom a decree dismissing the bill on demurrer, complainant appeals.

1Opinion of the CourtHooker, J.

The defendant being a stockholder in the Aldine Manufacturing Company, that company filed the bill in this cause, claiming an indebtedness due to it from the defendant, upon open account, for $1,000 and upwards, and praying an accounting, and a decree of foreclosure of its lien upon his stock in default of payment. The lien is claimed to exist by virtue of section 416155, 3 How. Stat., which provides that the corporation shall at all times have a lien upon all the stock or property of its members invested therein, for all debts due from them to such corporation. The bill was demurred to on…

2Cases cited17 opinions

  1. Robert Y. Brent, Surviving of Robert Brent, Use of the United States v. The President and Directors of the Bank of WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1836
  2. Canal Co. v. GordonSupreme Court of the United States · 1868
  3. Beall v. WhiteSupreme Court of the United States · 1877
  4. Westmoreland & Trousdale v. FosterSupreme Court of Alabama · 1877
  5. Purnell v. MannCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1898

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3Cited by14 opinions

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  5. Smyth v. Fidel. Dep. Co. of Md.Superior Court of Pennsylvania · 1936

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