Cook v. Detroit & Milwaukee Railroad

This is a judgment creditor’s bill. James TI. Muir is made defendant as having in his possession the books and papers of the company as its secretary. The bill alleges a judgment in favor of complainant, and the return of execution thereon nulla bona, and the allegations of the bill are supposed by complainant to be sufficient for a bill under chapter 206 of the Compiled Laws of 1871 which makes provisions for the winding up in chancery of insolvent corporations on the petition of creditors.

The defendants demurred to the bill, and while the demurrers were undisposed of, the court, on an ex…