Wing Evans v. Slater
Supreme Court of Rhode Island
Debt on a judgment brought to enforce the alleged liability of a stockholder in the American Wood Paper Company for a debt of the company under the provisions of Pub. Stat. R. I. cap. 155, § 22. Certified from the Common Pleas Division, jury trial not having been claimed. The case was heard on demurrers to special pleas.
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Debt on a judgment brought to enforce the alleged liability of a stockholder in the American Wood Paper Company for a debt of the company under the provisions of Pub. Stat. R. I. cap. 155, § 22. Certified from the Common Pleas Division, jury trial not having been claimed. The case was heard on demurrers to special pleas. It appears from the pleadings that the original contract under which the indebtedness of the American Wood Paper Company arose was substantially as follows : The American Wood Paper Company on the 5th day of November, 1891, made a contract with the plaintiffs for the purchase…
1Opinion of the CourtTillinghast, J.
This is an action brought by the plaintiffs, who are judgment creditors of the American Wood Paper Co., to enforce an alleged liability of the defendant as a stockholder in said company, under Pub. Stat. R. I. cap. 155, §§ 11, 12, which provide as follows :
£ ‘ Sec. 11. Every manufacturing company included within the provisions of this chapter shall file in the office of the town clerk of the town where the manufactory is established annually on or before the fifteenth day of February a certificate signed by a majority of the directors, truly stating the amount of its capital stock actually…
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