Ex parte Gray
Supreme Court of Alabama
Original petition in Supreme Court. Petition by Henry B. Gray for a writ of mandamus to the chancellor of the northwestern chancery division to permit him to intervene in a cause pending in his court. The petitioner, Gray, is not suing for the South & North Alabama Railroad Company; but for himself and other minority stockholders. — See E. T. V. & G. B. B. v. Gray-son, 119 TJ.
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Original petition in Supreme Court. Petition by Henry B. Gray for a writ of mandamus to the chancellor of the northwestern chancery division to permit him to intervene in a cause pending in his court. The petitioner, Gray, is not suing for the South & North Alabama Railroad Company; but for himself and other minority stockholders. — See E. T. V. & G. B. B. v. Gray-son, 119 TJ. S. 240; Central B. B. of N. J. v. Mills, 113 U. S. 249. He seeks protection, as a stockholder, from the illegal acts of his own company, as well as the others. Intervention is either by petition or complaint.— Bosenbaum…
1Opinion of the CourtSimpson, J.
— This is a petition for a writ of mandamus to the chancellor of the Northwestern division, requiring him to vacate and annul a decree refusing to allow petitioner to intervene in a suit, pending in said chancery court, of the South & North Alabama Railroad Company against the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company, and directing said chancellor to render a decree authorizing and allowing petitioner to intervene in said suit, as prayed in his petition filed in said case.
The substance of the petition for intervention is that petitioner is a minority stockholder in said South & North Alabama…
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