Campbell v. Woodstock Iron Co.
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Chancery Court of Calhoun. ■ Heard before the Hon. S. K McSpadden. The bill in this case was filed on the 20th December, 1883, by Eichard L. Campbell, as a stockholder in the Oxford Iron Company, a private corporation, against the said corporation, and against the Woodstock Iron Company, Alfred L. Tyler, and others; and sought an account and distribution of the assets of said first named corporation, whose corporate existence had (it was alleged) expired by…
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Appeal from the Chancery Court of Calhoun. ■ Heard before the Hon. S. K McSpadden. The bill in this case was filed on the 20th December, 1883, by Eichard L. Campbell, as a stockholder in the Oxford Iron Company, a private corporation, against the said corporation, and against the Woodstock Iron Company, Alfred L. Tyler, and others; and sought an account and distribution of the assets of said first named corporation, whose corporate existence had (it was alleged) expired by limitation, and to hold the other (defendants liable for the rents and profits of its property in their possession. The…
1Opinion of the CourtSomeryille, J.
— The ground, upon which the appellant’s right to file the present bill is based, is the alleged ownership of two shares of corporate stock in the Oxford Iron Company, of the par value of two thousand dollars each, which are now claimed by the Woodstock Iron Company, one of the defendants to the bill in the lower court. It is insisted by the defendant, that the complainant’s title to this stock has been divested by sale under a mortgage executed by him to one Thomas K. Eerguson, on December 24th, 1872, to secure a debt of nearly six thousand dollars evidenced by complainant Campbell’s…
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