Gay, Hardie & Co. v. Brierfield Coal & Iron Co.
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Chancery Court of Jefferson. Heard before the Hon. Thomas Cobbs. The bill in this case was filed August 19, 1889, in Colbert county, by Gay, Hardie & Co., a mercantile partnership doing-business in the city of Montgomery, as creditors of the Brier-field Coal & Iron Company, in behalf of themselves and •other creditors who might come in and make themselves parties, against said corporation, and against Wm.
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Appeal from the Chancery Court of Jefferson. Heard before the Hon. Thomas Cobbs. The bill in this case was filed August 19, 1889, in Colbert county, by Gay, Hardie & Co., a mercantile partnership doing-business in the city of Montgomery, as creditors of the Brier-field Coal & Iron Company, in behalf of themselves and •other creditors who might come in and make themselves parties, against said corporation, and against Wm. L. Chambers, as trustee for the mortgage bondholders under appointment by the Circuit Court of the United States for the Middle District of Alabama; and sought relief as…
1Opinion of the CourtColeman, J.
— Complainants, as simple-contract creditors of the Brierfield Coal & Iron Company, file their bill on behalf of themselves and all other creditors who may come in as such, and contribute to the prosecution of the suit. The case made by the bill, so far as is necessary to be stated, omitting names, is this: That on May 4th, 1882, the Brierfield Coal & Iron Company was organized as a corporate body, with an authorized capital stock of seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars, divided into seventy-five hundred shares of one hundred dollars each, of which amount three hundred and twenty-five…
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