Force v. Age-Herald Co.
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Chancery 'Court of Jefferson, Heard before the Hon. John C. Carmichael. The bill in this case was filed by the appellant, Silas C. Force, against the Age-IIerald Company, the Herald Company, corporations organized under the State of Alabama, and J. F. B. Jackson, Frank P. O’Brien, W. A. Walker, W. P. Pinckard, J. J. Altman, and Fred Schloss.
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Appeal from the Chancery 'Court of Jefferson, Heard before the Hon. John C. Carmichael. The bill in this case was filed by the appellant, Silas C. Force, against the Age-IIerald Company, the Herald Company, corporations organized under the State of Alabama, and J. F. B. Jackson, Frank P. O’Brien, W. A. Walker, W. P. Pinckard, J. J. Altman, and Fred Schloss. It was averred in the bill that the complainant was the owner of bonds evidencing a debt which had been assumed by the Herald Company, and that the payment of said bonds was secured by a deed of trust upon property which had been…
1Opinion of the CourtDowdell, J.
The appeal is taken from the decree of the chancellor sustaining the demurrer of the individual respondents to the bill as amended. The bill is filed by a creditor of the respondent, the “Herald Company,” a corporation, and as originally filed it charged the individual respondents with appropriating and using the assests of the Herald Company to satisfy their individual liability on a subscription made by them for their own benefit to the capital stock of the “Age-Herald! Company,” another corporation. It also averred the insolvency of the Herald Company, and the allegations of the…
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