Northern Bank & Trust Co. v. Day
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for King county, Smith, J., entered December 12, 1913, in favor of the defendants, in an action to recover unpaid stock subscriptions.
1Opinion of the CourtMorris, J.
The appellant, as trustee in bankruptcy, seeks in this action to recover from the respondents, as stockholders of an insolvent corporation, an amount claimed to be due the corporation upon subscriptions to its capital stock. The pertinent facts are about these: In March, 1910, the stockholders of the Standard Fish Company adopted a resolution increasing its capital stock from $25,000 to $60,000, the par value of both the old and new issues of stock being ten dol*297lars per share. At a subsequent meeting of the trustees, it was provided that fifteen hundred shares of the increased stock should be…
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