State Ex Rel. Calhoun v. Reynolds
Supreme Court of Missouri
Certiorari. (1) The trial court had jurisdiction as a court of equity to appoint a receiver for a corporation that was without directors or officers and whose assets were in instant danger of dissipation.
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Certiorari. (1) The trial court had jurisdiction as a court of equity to appoint a receiver for a corporation that was without directors or officers and whose assets were in instant danger of dissipation. Price v. Bankers Trust Co., 178 S. W. 749. The simultaneous resignation of all officers and directors who at once abandoned the property of the corporation, in the face of attachment suits and' levies, being’ made in many states, and the peril of complete loss of the assets of the corporation, creates such an exception to the general rule that a court of equity, upon having such a state of…
1Opinion of the CourtElder, J.
Relators seek by writ of certiorari to quash a judgment entered by the St. Louis Court of Appeals in an original proceeding in prohibition brought at the relation 'of George T. Priest against John W. Calhoun, Judge, which judgment restrains and enjoins the respondent judge from proceeding further in the suit of J. H. Conrades et al. v. Blue Bird Appliance Company, pending in the Circuit' Court of the City of St. Louis, in which suit the said judge had theretofore appointed a receiver for the said Blue Bird Appliance Company. The death of respondent herein, the Honorable George, D. Reynolds,…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- State ex rel. Merriam v. RossSupreme Court of Missouri · 1894
- Cantwell v. Columbia Lead Co.Supreme Court of Missouri · 1906
- Pullis v. Pullis Bros. Iron Co.Supreme Court of Missouri · 1900
- State ex rel. Crouse v. MillsSupreme Court of Missouri · 1910
- State Ex Rel. American Packing Co. v. ReynoldsSupreme Court of Missouri · 1921
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3Cited by20 opinions
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- State Ex Rel. Weddle v. TrimbleSupreme Court of Missouri · 1932
- State Ex Rel. Jenkins v. TrimbleSupreme Court of Missouri · 1921
- State Ex Rel. Kopke v. MulloySupreme Court of Missouri · 1931
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