Putnam v. Sweet
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Washington County. This was an appeal from an order sustaining a general demurrer, interposed by a part of the defendants to the complainants' bill, and the complainants appealed.
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Washington County. This was an appeal from an order sustaining a general demurrer, interposed by a part of the defendants to the complainants' bill, and the complainants appealed. The bill purported on its face to have been filed by the complainants, who are named therein as such, and in the behalf and for the benefit of themselves and all others, bona fide subscribers to the capital stock of the Milwaukee and Janesville plank road company, chartered by the territorial legislature by an act approved March 6, 1848. The commissioners appointed for.the…
1Opinion of the Court
Stow C. J.
The bill in this case was filed by the complainants (about twenty in number) for themselves, and all others alleged to be bona fide stockholders of the Milwaukee and Janesville Plank Eoad Company, claiming to hold one thousand shares of the stock, against the defendants, charging certain of them with a combined fraudulent subscription of seven thousand and seven hundred shares, and others of them with a combined fraudulent antagonistic subscription of seven thousand five hundred shares; a fraudulent suing out and *338abuse of an injunction from the Milwaukee circuit court, (in which the…
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