Legal Opinion
Smathers v. Leith
New Jersey Court of Chancery
Decided June 28, 1920PublishedCited by 8 opinions
On bill. On petition for removal to federal court.
1Opinion of the Court
Buchanan, V. C.
The bill of complaint in this cause is filed by the receiver of the Atlantic City Surburban Gas and Fuel Company, an insolvent corporation, alleging that the directors of that company made an improper and illegal payment of some $6,000 to Pleasantville Heat, Light and Power Company; that the Pleasant-ville company has since become insolvent; that the same directors of the Atlantic City company, while the latter was insolvent, paid to the defendants Leith and Bradley, as executors of Savery Bradley, deceased (the present petitioners), $5,000 in repayment of a loan made to the…
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