Anderson v. Blattau
Supreme Court of Missouri
Error to St. Louis Circuit Court. This was a suit instituted by plaintiffs in error, who were partners in business, against defendants in error, to recover the sum of $4,147.19, it being an indebtedness contracted by the Missouri Spinning Company, a corporation of which the said defendants were directors.
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Error to St. Louis Circuit Court. This was a suit instituted by plaintiffs in error, who were partners in business, against defendants in error, to recover the sum of $4,147.19, it being an indebtedness contracted by the Missouri Spinning Company, a corporation of which the said defendants were directors. It was alleged by plaintiffs that the debt was contracted in 1859, while they were partners, for goods, wares, and merchandise sold to the company, and for which the notes of'the company were given; that the capital stock subscribed was $62,000, and that the amount paid in on the capital…
1Opinion of the CourtEagg, Judge
This suit was instituted, in the St. Louis Court of Common Pleas, against Charles Blattau, Erancis Beehler, John Rugg, and Henry Prante. The defendants were sued, as directors of the Missouri Spinning Company, to recover the amount of several judgments which had been rendered in favor of the plaintiffs against the corporation, and which they were unable to collect by legal process.
The alleged liability of defendants rests upon the provisions of section 20, article I, of the act concerning corporations (R. C_. *461855, p. 374). One of the plaintiffs was a stockholder in the company, and the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Kritzer v. WoodsonSupreme Court of Missouri · 1854
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- Schaeffer v. Phœnix Brewery Co.Missouri Court of Appeals · 1877