Whitman v. Holmes Publishing Co.

This action is brought by plaintiff, a resident stockholder of the defendant Holmes Publishing Company, an Illinois coloration, against that corporation and its directors, Henry Brandenburg, Josiah Brandenburg and Erank Byers, and one Charles Austin Bates, whom, it was claimed, was the recipient of a fraudulent and collusive transfer of the assets of the Hblmes Publishing Co. The relief sought is as follows: First, that the directors of the Holmes Publishing Company account for their official conduct; second, that the directors and Bates pay to the corporation the value of any property…