State ex rel. White v. Ferris
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Information in the nature of a quo warranto, brought to the Superior Court in Hartford County, by the Attorney for the State, at the relation of Josiah J. White and William H. Goodspeed, charging the respondents with having usurped sundry offices of a corporation. The case was heard upon the information and the answer of the respondents, before Martin, J. The court found the following facts.
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Information in the nature of a quo warranto, brought to the Superior Court in Hartford County, by the Attorney for the State, at the relation of Josiah J. White and William H. Goodspeed, charging the respondents with having usurped sundry offices of a corporation. The case was heard upon the information and the answer of the respondents, before Martin, J. The court found the following facts. The Hartford & Albany Transportation Company, on the 9th day of February, 1875, was and for some time previously had been, a corporation duly organized under the joint-stock laws of the state, and located…
1Opinion of the Court
Park, 0. J.
The controversy in this case is with regard to the right of Lindley M. Ferris, Jr., to vote on five hundred and sixty-four shares of stock of the Hartford & Albany Transportation Company, at the annual meeting of the company for the choice of directors and other officers in the month of February, 1875. These shares formerly belonged in part and principally to • the co-partnership of Murray, Ferris & Co., of which L. M. Ferris, Jr., was a member, and in part to L. M. Ferris, Jr., and at the time of the annual meeting they still stood on the books of the company as belonging to them,…
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