Mountain View Development Co. v. Burnett

These consolidated eases, three in number, were instituted by the plaintiff, Mountain Yiew Development Company, against the respective defendants, to enforce collection of subscriptions which they made to its capital stock. A petition was circulated among the residents of a particular locality in Knoxville, in January, 1924, soliciting subscriptions for stock in a corporation to be created, which petition is as follows:

“We, the undersigned, hereby subscribe for the amounts of stock, set opposite our respective names, of the Mountain Yiew Development Company, a corporation to be chartered and…