Heinze v. South Green Bay Land & Dock Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Winnebago county: Geobge W. Buenell, Circuit Judge. The defendants Elmore and Vander Zee with others, constituting the Allouez Improvement Company, were the owners, subject to several mortgages and liens, of a considerable tract of land a few miles south of the city of Green Bay, ■which had been purchased, with a view to platting and development.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Winnebago county: Geobge W. Buenell, Circuit Judge. The defendants Elmore and Vander Zee with others, constituting the Allouez Improvement Company, were the owners, subject to several mortgages and liens, of a considerable tract of land a few miles south of the city of Green Bay, ■which had been purchased, with a view to platting and development. In the summer of 1894 they had negotiations with a Chicago attorney and promoter, Marks, resulting in the sale to him of said land for $44,000 in excess of the existing mortgages and liens, on the…
1Opinion of the CourtBabdbeN, J.
This action is against the defendant corporation, and the other defendants as stockholders, to recover of them for services rendered under a contract with the cor*104poration., and for which, it is claimed the defendants are liable under sec. 1773, S. & E. Ann. Stats. This section provides that' “no such corporation shall transact business with any others than its members, until at least one half of its capital shall have been duly subscribed and at least twenty per centum thereof actually paid in; and if any obligation shall be contracted in violation hereof, the corporation offending shall have…
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