Merchants & Planters Line v. Waganer
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from tlie Chancery Court of Mobile. Heard before lion. JoiiN A. Postee. The bill in this cause was filed on the 1st June, 1882, by Louis P. Waganer and Gr.
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Appeal from tlie Chancery Court of Mobile. Heard before lion. JoiiN A. Postee. The bill in this cause was filed on the 1st June, 1882, by Louis P. Waganer and Gr. Floyd Johnston, as stockholders or shareholders in a private corporation, called the “Merchants & Planters Line,” against the said corporation, and against Ritten-house Moore, James G. Stewart, and Frank S. Stone, “directors and active managers of said corporation,” together with the other stockholders; and sought a dissolution of the corporation, a settlement of its affairs, and the appointment of a receiver to take charge of its…
1Opinion of the CourtStone, J.
The first forty, and the last four pages of the *585record in this case, contain every thing that can be considered on the questions raised by the present appeal. There are other one hundred and eighteen closely written folio pages, made up of affidavits filed for and against the appointment of a receiver; a motion that was never acted on in the court below, and, of course, is not and can not be the subject of an assignment of error. The appeal is from an interlocutory decree of the chancellor, overruling a demurrer to the bill. Nothing should have come before us except the bill and its exhibits,…
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