Brown v. Allebach
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Pennsylvania
In Equity. Suit by Arthur K. Brown, as receiver of the American Alkali Company, against Edwin S. Allebach and others. On petition of Augustus T. Ashton to strike off the judgment against him for stockholder’s liability.
1Opinion of the Court
HOLLAND, District Judge.
In this case the court authorized the surviving receiver, whom it had appointed, to institute a bill in equity against all the stockholders of the American Alkali Company, an insolvent corporation, for the collection of an assessment on shares of stock which were standing in the name of Mr. Ashton, the petitioner, and others on August 31, 1905. After the subpoena and bill filed were served upon the petitioner, he, together with a number of other defendants, demurred thereto, and assigned as one of the causes of demurrer that the court had no jurisdiction to entertain…
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