Gardner v. Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Hennepin county by plaintiff, as a judgment creditor of the Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway Company, to enforce the double liability of the stockholders in that company. The cause was submitted to Belden, J., on an agreed statement of facts, and judgment was ordered in favor of plaintiff. Defendants’ motion for a new trial was denied, Smith, Elliott, Simpson, JJ.
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Action in the district court for Hennepin county by plaintiff, as a judgment creditor of the Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway Company, to enforce the double liability of the stockholders in that company. The cause was submitted to Belden, J., on an agreed statement of facts, and judgment was ordered in favor of plaintiff. Defendants’ motion for a new trial was denied, Smith, Elliott, Simpson, JJ. From a judgment against defendants entered in pursuance of the order of Belden, J., the answering defendants appealed. The Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway Company was a consolidated company composed…
1Opinion of the CourtBuck, J.
One of the defendants, the Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway Company, is a domestic railroad corporation, and located within this state, and is insolvent. The defendants who answered are William L. Bull, Richard B. Hartshorne, Edwin Hawley and William Strauss. The plaintiff, Gardner, brought the action, in behalf of himself and other creditors who might intervene, against the defendants for the purpose of enforcing an alleged double liability on the part of certain stockholders, individual defendants above-named, and on March 23, 1898, obtained a judgment in the district court of Hennepin'…
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