Coleman v. Coleman

The original plaintiff in the action was James S. Coleman, but the appellant, Jesse O. Coleman, having purchased the alleged cause-of action during the pendency of the suit, was substituted as plaintiff.

The complaint consisted of four paragraphs, but the gist of them all is, that the defendants and others undertook to organize a manufacturing company by the name of “The Morgan-town Manufacturing Company,” of which the defendants became and acted as the directors, but that, by reason of a failure to execute and file a duplicate of the articles of association in the office of the Secretary of…