Reed & McCormick v. Gold
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Oircuit Court of Clarke county, rendered in a proceeding by motion, wherein the defendant in error was the plaintiff, and the plaintiff in error was the defendant. This was a proceeding by motion on the part of a receiver in a chancery suit to recover assessments made by the Chancery Court against the stockholders of a joint-stock company.
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Error to a judgment of the Oircuit Court of Clarke county, rendered in a proceeding by motion, wherein the defendant in error was the plaintiff, and the plaintiff in error was the defendant. This was a proceeding by motion on the part of a receiver in a chancery suit to recover assessments made by the Chancery Court against the stockholders of a joint-stock company. Numerous defences were set up, and among others that the company was engaged in an illegal enterprise, in that for every sixteen shares of stock purchased the purchaser was to draw a building lot; that these lots were of unequal…
1Opinion of the Court
Keith, P.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
Gold was appointed receiver in the chancery suit of Ricamore v. Berryville Land & Improvement Company, and directed to institute “suits at law” against certain delinquent stockholders, or their assignees, named in the report of Commissioner Ward. In obedience to this order, Gold served written notice upon Eeed & McCormick that he would, at the October term, 1898, of the Oircuit Court of Clarke county, ask for judgment for the sum of $410.08. The defendants appeared and demurred to this notice, first, because by the terms of the decree of Janu*40ary 8,…
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