Pepper v. Addicks

J. B. McPHERSON, District Judge.

This bill in equity is brought by the receiver of the Bay State Gas Company, a corporation organized under the laws of the state of Delaware, against John Edward Ad-dicks, to compel him to pay over certain profits which he is alleged to have made improperly by using the corporation assets for his individual purposes. The bill, as originally filed, sought to recover profits made in five groups of transactions that were averred to be illegal, but upon final hearing the complainant confined himself to the one group that is about to be described. From the…