Great Western Min. & Mfg. Co. v. Harris' Estate
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Vermont
In Equity. Suit by the receiver of a corporation to charge defendant with liability as a director and stockholder. Defendant having died pending the suit, it was revived against his executors.
1Opinion of the Court
WHEELER,s District Judge.
The Great Western Mining & Manufacturing Company was a corporation of Kentucky, with a capital stock of $200,000, in shares of $100 each, of which the defendant’s testator, a citizen of Vermont, held 600, and a brother of the testator .600,—bought in 1883, at $30 per share,—another person 440, another 300, another 52, and two others 4 each. The five largest stockholders were the directors, and the testator was the president. It had lands, mines, and transportation facilities in Kentucky, and largely produced and sold coal. It issued $50,000 of new stock ratably to…
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