Peters v. Waverly Water-Front Improvement & Development Co.
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from a decree of the Hustings Court of the city of Portsmouth. Decree for defendants. Complainants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtWhittle, J.
In November, 1908, appellants filed a bill in equity in the Court of Hustings for the city of Portsmouth against appellees, the Waverly Water-Front Improvement and Development Company, Legh R. Watts, and William G. Maupin, Jr., individually and as directors of the company, and the Atlantic Coast Terminal Company, and others. The material allegations of the bill are as follows:
That plaintiffs are owners of forty-two shares out of six hundred shares of the stock of the Waverly Water-Front Improvement and Development Company (hereafter called the Waverly Company); that the company (a Virginia…
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