Senn v. Levy
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 36 — Action to Enforce Payment of Stockholders’ Double Liability to Creditors of the Corporation APPEAL FROM JEFFERSON CIRCUIT COURT, CHANCERY DIVISION. Judgment for Plaintiff and Defendants Appeal. The German-Real-Estate and Investment Company was incorporated in January, 1893, long after the present Constitution Had gone into effect by the filing of articles of incorporation under the provisions of chapter 56 of the General Statutes.
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Case 36 — Action to Enforce Payment of Stockholders’ Double Liability to Creditors of the Corporation APPEAL FROM JEFFERSON CIRCUIT COURT, CHANCERY DIVISION. Judgment for Plaintiff and Defendants Appeal. The German-Real-Estate and Investment Company was incorporated in January, 1893, long after the present Constitution Had gone into effect by the filing of articles of incorporation under the provisions of chapter 56 of the General Statutes. On February 1, 1894, it filed in the Jefferson county clerk’s office by consent of holders of two-thirds of its stock, amendments to its articles changing…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion of the court by
JUDGE BURNAM
Affirming.
The appellee, Sol Levy, brought this suit as a creditor of the Ge-rman-American Title Company, to- enforce the payment of its stockholder’s -double liability to creditors of the corporation, under section 547 of the act of April 5,, *3211893. The German-American Real-Estate & Investment Company was incorporated in January, 1893, under the provisions of chapter 56 of the General Statutes. By this charter it had power to deal in real estate’, to buy and sell securities, and to lend money on them. In March, 1893, it amended its charter, and by the-…
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