Champollion v. Corbin
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Bill in Equity. The case was submitted by agreement at the November term, 1900, of the supreme court, on the bill, answer, and such portions of the articles of incorporation, by-laws, and records of the Blue Mountain Forest Association as either party might choose to lay before the court; and was transferred by Parsons, J., without any findings of fact or rulings as to the law.
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Bill in Equity. The case was submitted by agreement at the November term, 1900, of the supreme court, on the bill, answer, and such portions of the articles of incorporation, by-laws, and records of the Blue Mountain Forest Association as either party might choose to lay before the court; and was transferred by Parsons, J., without any findings of fact or rulings as to the law. The allegations of the bill are in substance as follows : The defendants are executors of the will of the late Austin Corbin and reside in New York, but own and occupy summer residences in Newport in this county. The…
1Opinion of the CourtChase, J.
The subject-matter of this suit is ten shares of the capital stock of the Blue Mountain Forest Association, a corporation organized under the general laws of the state. Although the property of the corporation consists largely of real estate, these shares are dioses in action, or property in the nature of dioses in action,— not realty. 1 Mor. Corp., ss. 224, 225 ; 1 Cook Corp., s. 12; 1 Thomp. Corp., ss. 1066, 1070; 3 Ib., s. 3317.
The plaintiff’s alleged title to the shares depends solely upon the fact that he is the only child of the late Mary C. Cliampollion, who, lie alleges, was the owner…
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