Venner v. Great Northern Railway Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL PROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OP THE UNITED STATES POR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OP NEW YORK. The facts áre stated in the opinion. The Circuit Court should have aligned the Great Northern Railway with the plaintiff which would defeat jurisdiction. The question of jurisdiction is directly raised in and appears by the record.
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APPEAL PROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OP THE UNITED STATES POR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OP NEW YORK. The facts áre stated in the opinion. The Circuit Court should have aligned the Great Northern Railway with the plaintiff which would defeat jurisdiction. The question of jurisdiction is directly raised in and appears by the record. The action is thé common one in equity by a stockholder of a corporation suing on behalf of himself and of other stockholders to recover for a wrong alleged to have been done to the corporation by its officers dealing on its behalf to their own personal profit and advantage…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Moody
The plaintiff in error, a citizen of New York, brought this suit in equity in the Supreme Court of New York against the defendant railroad, a citizen of Minnesota, and the other defendant, its president, also a citizen of Minnesota. The complaint set forth in substance the following facts upon which the right to relief was claimed: The plaintiff was a stockholder in the defendant railroad at the time of the beginning of the suit in 1906. Whether or not he was a stockholder at the time when the alleged wrongful acts were committed by the defendants does not appear by any allegation in the…
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