Tillis v. Brown
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Montgomery City Court. Heard before Hon. A. D. Sayre. Bill by J. M. Brown and others against Richard Tillis and otliers. From a decree overruling' a demurrer to the bill and the motion to dismiss it for want, of equity, defendants appeal.
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Appeal from Montgomery City Court. Heard before Hon. A. D. Sayre. Bill by J. M. Brown and others against Richard Tillis and otliers. From a decree overruling' a demurrer to the bill and the motion to dismiss it for want, of equity, defendants appeal. Before the stockholder can bring a bill in bis own name be must have done everything in his power to obtain a redress of the wrongs complained of by application to the board of directors, and failing in this, be must apply to the stockholders. — R. R. Co. v. Neal, 128 Ala. 119 ; Johnson v. B. & L. Asso., 125 Ala. 167. The last ease cited is…
1Opinion of the CourtDenson, J.
This bill is filed by J. M. Brown, a minority stockholder in the Coffee Cotton Mills Company, a corporation, in behalf of himself and others similarly situated, against the corporation and W. C. O’Neal and R. Tillis. The purpose of the bill is to annul a deed executed by the corporation to W. C. O’Neal and R. Tillis, and to have the property conveyed by it restored to the corporation. The complainant voluntarily amended his bill, and to it, as amended, the court sustained a demurrer. It was again amended, and as last amended several stockholders are. joined as complainants. The court…
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