A. & S. C. R. Co. v. Hill
Oregon Supreme Court
Multnomah county: E. D. Shattuck, Judge. Defendant appeals. This is an action to recover $1,500 and interest claimed to be due plaintiff from defendant as delinquent assessments on twenty shares of plaintiff’s capital stock of the par value of one hundred dollars each, subscribed for by defendant A trial was had in the court below which resulted adversely to defendant, and hence this appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtBean, J.
— The facts in this case are these: ■ On August 11.1888, plaintiff was duly incorporated with a capital stock of $75,000, divided into 750 shares of one hundred dollars each, for the purpose of constructing, owning and operating a railroad from Astoria to Tillamook bay, with its principal office at Astoria. On August 13th stock-books were duly opened to receive subscriptions to its capital stock, when defendant and other persons subscribed to the following contract in writing in said book, to wit: “Subscriptions to the capital stock of the Astoria & South Coast Railway Company,incorporated…
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