Barnett v. Philadelphia Market Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 377, January 3,1906, by defendants, from decree of C. P. No. 2, Phila. Co., March T., 1904, No. 4,595, on bill, in equity in case of Frank Barnett et al., trading as Wolf Brothers and Company, and Abraham Lehman, trading as N. Lehman and Brother, v. The Philadelphia Market Company et'al. and the Quaker City Cold Storage & Warehouse Company. Bill in equity to ascertain value of stock of a corporation and to secure payment therefor.
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Appeal, No. 377, January 3,1906, by defendants, from decree of C. P. No. 2, Phila. Co., March T., 1904, No. 4,595, on bill, in equity in case of Frank Barnett et al., trading as Wolf Brothers and Company, and Abraham Lehman, trading as N. Lehman and Brother, v. The Philadelphia Market Company et'al. and the Quaker City Cold Storage & Warehouse Company. Bill in equity to ascertain value of stock of a corporation and to secure payment therefor. Before Wiltbank, J. The plaintiffs averred in their bill that Frank A. Barnett, on October, 19, 1903, became, and at the time of filing the bill, still…
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Mr. Justice Brown,
The prayers of this bill are in the alternative. The complainants ask that the consolidation or merger of the Philadelphia Market Company with the Quaker City Cold Storage and Warehouse Company and the resulting incorporation of the two as the Pennsylvania Cold Storage and Market Company, be declared illegal and void, or that they be paid, by the defendants, or either of them, the full market value of their stock held and owned by them in the Philadephia Market Company. The first prayer was not granted, but a decree was made for the relief asked for in the second.…
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