Sidway v. Missouri Land & Live-Stock Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Western Missouri
In Equity. On demurrer to bill.
1Opinion of the Court
PHILIPS, District Judge.
This is a bill in equity by a stockholder against a foreign corporation, the general purpose of which is to have a receiver appointed for the corporation, to conduct and manage its affairs for tlie protection of the complainant, who is a citizen of the state of Missouri. The defendant is an alien corporation, organized under the laws of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, with its principal office located at Edinburgh, Scotland, where its directors and all its stockholders, except the complainant and perhaps one or two others, holders of about 2,500…
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