Wood v. Harrison

This was an action by the appellees, creditors, against the appellant, as a stockholder, of a private corporation known as the Indianapolis Chair Factory.

The complaint, which is in one paragraph, sets forth the organization of that corporation in 1870, under the act for the organization of manufacturing and mining companies, approved May 20th, 1852; that it was organized for the purpose of manufacturing chairs, and was not a banking or road corporation;-that defendant, by subscription, became the owner of four hundred shares of its stock, of fifty dollars each, being in all twenty thousand…