In re Eckhardt Mfg. Co.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Eighteenth District Court, Parish of Acadia; Conrad De Baillon, Judge. In the matter of the receivership of the Eckhardt Manufacturing Company, Limited. Application of the Iberia Cypress Company for rule on Jack Frank el and others to-show cause why the appointment of William E. Lanson, receiver, should not be set aside. Prom an order refusing the rule, petitioner appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
*121Statement of the Case.
NICHOLLS, J.
The Eckhardt Manufacturing Company, Limited, was created by notarial act on the 29th of September, 1900. Its general purposes were declared to be to saw, dress, and manufacture lumber ready for use, to buy and sell lumber, and do a gen■eral lumber business. By article 4 of the •charter it was declared that all powers of the corporation • should be vested in and exercised by a board of five directors, to be selected annually by ballot at a meeting of the stockholders. The fifth article of the charter provided that the act of incorporation might be changed,…
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