Belleview Cemetery Co. v. Faulks
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Bessemer City Court. Heard before Hon. J. C. B. GwiN. Bill by J. D. Faulks against the Bellview Cemetery Company and others. From a decree overruling demurrer to the bill, respondents appeal.
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Appeal from Bessemer City Court. Heard before Hon. J. C. B. GwiN. Bill by J. D. Faulks against the Bellview Cemetery Company and others. From a decree overruling demurrer to the bill, respondents appeal. The facts alleged in the bill are as follows: That the plaintiff did a lot of grading, leveling, and beautifying the cemetery grounds for the Bellview Cemetery Company, under a contract for an agreed price, and which amounted to, when the work was done, $1,412.59, and after the refusal or failure of said company to pay the amount, complainant instituted suit against the company in the city…
1Opinion of the CourtThomas, J.
This is an appeal by the Brighton Cemetery Company, a corporation, James H. Davis, Mary E. Wagensler, and George M. Wagensler, from a decree of the city court overruling the several separate demurrers to a bill of complaint filed by J. B. Faulks as a judgment creditor of the Bellview Cemetery Company, a corporation; to the properties and rights of which latter company the Brighton Cemetery Company succeeded by purchase.(1) It has long been settled that a bill filed by a judgment creditor to reach the equitable assets of a corporation in satisfaction of the complainant’s judgment at law,…
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