Vanderwerken v. Glenn
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to judgment of circuit court of city of Alexandria, rendered October 5th, 1886, in an action of assumpsit removed thither from circuit court of Alexandria county, wherein John Glenn, trustee of the National Express and Transportation Company, was plaintiff, and Gilbert Yanderwerken, was defendant.
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Error to judgment of circuit court of city of Alexandria, rendered October 5th, 1886, in an action of assumpsit removed thither from circuit court of Alexandria county, wherein John Glenn, trustee of the National Express and Transportation Company, was plaintiff, and Gilbert Yanderwerken, was defendant. The object was to recover of the defendant the sum of $1,500— that being thirty per cent, upon the subscription by him for fifty shares of the stock of said company—a corporation chartered and organized under the laws of Virginia. To the declaration there was a demurrer, which was overruled;…
1Opinion of the CourtHinton, J.
(after stating the case), delivered the opinion of the court.
The only questions raised upon this record of sufficient importance to be noticed naturally resolve themselves, in our judgment, into four, and they may be briefly stated as we come to discuss them.
The first of these arises upon the demurrer, and presents for decision the question whether John Glenn, trustee, can maintain this action in his own name. And the solution of this question does not, in our judgment, depend, as it seems to be erroneously supposed to depend, upon the construction to be given to section IT of chapter 141 of…
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