Waggy v. Jane Lew Lumber Co.
West Virginia Supreme Court
Appeal from Circuit Court, Braxton County. Bill in equity by Henry Waggy against the Jane Lew Lumber Company, in which Boss F. Stout Lumber Company intervenes. From the decrees, the interveners appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
BobiNSON, Judge:
Waggy, a stockholder and creditor of the Jane Lew Lumber Company, a corporation, by this bill in equity prayed for the appointment of a receiver to take charge of the affairs of the company and to administer its assets. The bill showed that the company, by misfortune and mismanagement, had become so helplessly insolvent that the certainty of depreciation and loss by reason of seizures and sales at the suits of creditors then pending, and other suits that were sure to follow, could only be prevented by the interposition of a receiver. The court appointed a receiver as prayed…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Kanawha Coal Co. v. Ballard & Welch Coal Co.West Virginia Supreme Court · 1897
3Cited by6 opinions
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- Ivory Hill Coal & Coke Co. v. Harrison-Barbour Coal Co.West Virginia Supreme Court · 1926
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