Gray v. South & North Alabama Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Montgomery City Court. Heard before Hon. A. D. Sayre. Suit by Henry B. Gray and others against the South & North Eailroad Company and others. From a decree denying- an application to dismiss the bill for want of equity, defendants appeal; and from an order denying an application to appoint a receiver, complainants appeal.
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Appeal from Montgomery City Court. Heard before Hon. A. D. Sayre. Suit by Henry B. Gray and others against the South & North Eailroad Company and others. From a decree denying- an application to dismiss the bill for want of equity, defendants appeal; and from an order denying an application to appoint a receiver, complainants appeal. Henry B. Gray and-other minority stockholders in South & North Eailroad filed a bill in the city court of Montgomery asking for an -accounting between the South & North Eailroad Company, and the Louisville & Nashville Eailroad Company, the lessee of the South &…
1Opinion of the CourtAnderson, J.
The original bill in the case at bar was filed primarily for an accounting between the two companies, by the complainant Gray, a minority stockholder, in the South & North Company, and who also prays for a receiver, and for an injunction restraining the directors from proceeding with the prosecution of a bill heretofore filed by them for the South & North Com*223pany in the Jefferson chancery court, seeking an accounting between the two companies, as well as a sale of the South & North Railroad. Company to the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company. The South & North Company moved to .dissolve…
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