Graham v. Executors of Christian Fleissner

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Parker, J.

The original defendant was Christian Fleissner, who died after suit was begun, and his executors were substituted. It is an action at law, based on the claim that Meissner acquired six thousand three hundred and seventy-five shares of stock of “Maxim Corporation” at a nominal price, and with knowledge, or charged with knowledge, that such stock had been issued at a grossly excessive and fraudulent valuation of certain patents constituting practically all the assets of the company; that the company, a Delaware corporation, went into bankruptcy…