Brown v. McDonald

HOLLAND, District Judge.

This bill, as amended, is purely and simply a bill for the discovery, not of evidence to be used in the aid of a suit at law, but for the purpose of ascertaining the persons for whose account certain certificates of stock were purchased, and against whom the plaintiff alleges he intends to bring suit for the recovery of certain installments of assessment legally made upon the said stock. The amended bill sets forth that Arthur K. Brown, surviving receiver of the American Alkali Company, a corporation organized under the laws of the state of New Jersey, was duly…