Higgins v. Illinois Trust & Savings Bank
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ of Error to the Branch Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on writ of error to the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Elbridge Hanecy, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Hand
A bill in chancery was filed on January 19, 1891, by Charles F. Morse, a judgment creditor of the Pacific Railway Company, in the circuit court of Cook county, .in behalf of himself and all other creditors of said company, under section 25 of the Corporation act, (Hurd’s Stat. chap. 32,) against said company and its stockholders, to enforce the statutory liability of said stockholders for any unpaid balance upon their stock.
The Pacific Railway Company, an Illinois corporation, was organized in 1889 to acquire the street railway properties in Los Angeles, California, then owned by the Los…
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