Bunn's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeals from the Court of Common Pleas No. 4, of Philadelphia county: In Equity: Of July Term, 1883, Nos. 24 and 30. These were appeals by William M. Bunn and David H. Bane from a decree of said Court on a creditor’s bill, fixing ¡the liability of the appellants as stockholders in the Phila•delphia and Susquehanna Blue Stone Company, and directing that they pay certain sums found to be due and unpaid by them upon their subscriptions to the capital stock of said •company.
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Appeals from the Court of Common Pleas No. 4, of Philadelphia county: In Equity: Of July Term, 1883, Nos. 24 and 30. These were appeals by William M. Bunn and David H. Bane from a decree of said Court on a creditor’s bill, fixing ¡the liability of the appellants as stockholders in the Phila•delphia and Susquehanna Blue Stone Company, and directing that they pay certain sums found to be due and unpaid by them upon their subscriptions to the capital stock of said •company. Bill in equity, filed November 18, 1881, wherein by amendment John Maxwell, Hiram Dunn and others were complainants, and…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Green
In this ease a bill in equity was filed by certain creditors of the Philadelphia and Susquehanna Blue Stone Company, suing as well for themselves as for all other creditors who might become parties thereto, against the company and the holders of its. capital stock, for the purpose of compelling the payment of the unpaid capital stock by the stockholders in order that the same might be applied to the payment of the debts due the plaintiffs. '-'^The bill alleged, and the master found, that the defendant company was incorporated under the general corporation law of April 29th, 1874, that the…
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