Legal Opinion

Van Oss v. Premier Petroleum Co.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine

Decided March 4, 1915PublishedCited by 5 opinions

On appeal by defendant from decree of sitting Justice denying the motions to vacate the receivership and injunction ordered, and from the final decree sustaining the bill and ordering dissolution of defendant corporation, and that such injunction and receivership be made permanent.

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On appeal by defendant from decree of sitting Justice denying the motions to vacate the receivership and injunction ordered, and from the final decree sustaining the bill and ordering dissolution of defendant corporation, and that such injunction and receivership be made permanent. This is a bill in equity, brought by Salomon Frederik Van Oss, in behalf of himself and all other stockholders of the defendant company, who may elect to join as parties plaintiff, against the Premier Petroleum Company, a Maine corporation, praying for an injunction, temporary and permanent receiver and the…

1Opinion of the CourtHanson, J.

This is a bill in equity brought under the provisions of Chap. 85 of the Public Laws of 1905, as amended by the Laws of 1907, Chap. 137, by the plaintiff in behalf of himself and all other stockholders of the defendant corporation who might become parties plaintiff, against the defendant, a Maine corporation, located at Portland, praying for an injunction, temporary and permanent receiver, and the liquidation and dissolution of the defendant corporation.

The case is before the court on appeal from the decree of the sitting-justice denying the motions to vacate the receivership and injunction…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Clark v. National Linseed Oil Co.Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1901

3Cited by5 opinions

  1. Department of Environmental Protection v. EmersonSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1989
  2. State v. WhiteSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1950
  3. Geisendorfer v. MillCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1945
  4. Geisendorfer v. Rainbow Mill & Lumber Co.California Court of Appeal · 1945
  5. State v. JonesSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1935

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