Lehr v. Murphy
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeai, from an order of the circuit court for Milwaukee county: ObkeN T. WiuliaMS, Circuit Judge. The appeal is from, an order sustaining a demurrer to the complaint, which alleged the following facts: ■ Defendant Standard Lead & .Zinc Smelting & Mining Company is a corporation organized under the laws of the territory of Arizona February 24, 1905, with an authorized capital of one million shares of the par value of $1 each.
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Appeai, from an order of the circuit court for Milwaukee county: ObkeN T. WiuliaMS, Circuit Judge. The appeal is from, an order sustaining a demurrer to the complaint, which alleged the following facts: ■ Defendant Standard Lead & .Zinc Smelting & Mining Company is a corporation organized under the laws of the territory of Arizona February 24, 1905, with an authorized capital of one million shares of the par value of $1 each. Its designated office and principal place of business is and always has been in the city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Since June 5, 1905, defendants Murphy, Zien, McKinney,…
1Opinion of the CourtMarshall, J.
Only the first and. fifth grounds of demurrer are argued in the briefs of counsel for respondents. Therefore the other grounds will be regarded as abandoned, though we will say, in passing, that viewing the complaint as for a mere creditor’s action we are unable to perceive any *97support for either of tbe grounds not argued. Regardless of the general nature of tire complaint and of tbe prayer for relief, tbe dominant purpose of tbe pleader is unmistakably stated in tbe allegation that the action is brought “for tbe sole purpose of compelling payment from tbe said defendant’s directors of tbe…
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