Warren Telephone Co. v. Staton

The defendant in error, M. Y. Staton, brought an action in the court of common pleas of Trumbull county against the plaintiff in error, the Warren Telephone Company, asking for an accounting of all the funds and property unlawfully and fraudulently diverted from the Warren, Ohio, Telephone Company. We will refer to these parties plaintiff and defendant as they appeared in the court of common pleas of this county.

The plaintiff alleged that he is the owner of certain shares of the preferred stock of the Warren, Ohio, Telephone Company, a corporation chartered under the laws of the state of…