Hudson v. J. B. Parker Machine Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in EQUITY, filed June 1,1897, under the provisions of Pub. Sts. c. 1.06, § 64, by creditors of the J. B. Parker Machine Company, a corporation organized under the provisions of Gen. Sts. c. 61, against the corporation and against Archelaus C. Dakin, Charles C. Murdock, Mary A. Parker, Jonathan Smith as executor of the will of M. Isadore Parker, deceased, and Charles G. Bancroft as trustee.
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Bill in EQUITY, filed June 1,1897, under the provisions of Pub. Sts. c. 1.06, § 64, by creditors of the J. B. Parker Machine Company, a corporation organized under the provisions of Gen. Sts. c. 61, against the corporation and against Archelaus C. Dakin, Charles C. Murdock, Mary A. Parker, Jonathan Smith as executor of the will of M. Isadore Parker, deceased, and Charles G. Bancroft as trustee. The bill alleged that the capital stock of the defendant corporation was fixed at $45,000; that on December 2, 1896, its debts exceeded its capital stock; that on that date the plaintiffs brought an…
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, J.
It may be well to consider first the defendants’ objections and exceptions to the admission of evidence, and the findings of the master in regard to the official position and the liability of Dakin, president and a director of the corporation. It appeared by the record that in 1886 Dakin was elected president and one of the directors, and that at the same time Murdock was elected treasurer and one of the directors. Oral testimony was admitted agai'nst the defendants’ objection that in January, 1891, there was a meeting of the stockholders at which the same officers were elected, and that the…
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