Crook v. Jewett

Morris, Justice.

Defendants, upon the plaintiff’s affidavit, upon which the order of arrest was granted, move to discharge the arrest.

The affidavit of the plaintiff, among other things, establishes that the plaintiff owns two hundred shares of the stock of the Parker Vein Coal Company, of the par value of $100 per share. That the Parker Vein Coal Company was incorporated by the state of Maryland “for the purpose of working mines of coal and iron, and vending the proceeds of the samethat the corporation owned “ and were possessed of a large and valuable *20property, consisting of lands and mines…