Passmore v. Allentown & Reading Traction Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 232, Jan. T., 1920, by plaintiffs, from decree of C. P. Berks Co., sitting in equity in No. 1093 Equity Docket, 1913, dismissing bill in equity in case of John H. Passmore, Daniel B. Shepp, and the Real Estate Title Insurance & Trust Co., and R. Nelson Buckley, trustees under the will of Robert N. Carson, deceased, v. Allentown & Reading Traction Co., Hannah A. Ahrens, Executrix of Howard E. Ahrens, dec’d, P. A. Diener, George H. Gerber, Sol.
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Appeal, No. 232, Jan. T., 1920, by plaintiffs, from decree of C. P. Berks Co., sitting in equity in No. 1093 Equity Docket, 1913, dismissing bill in equity in case of John H. Passmore, Daniel B. Shepp, and the Real Estate Title Insurance & Trust Co., and R. Nelson Buckley, trustees under the will of Robert N. Carson, deceased, v. Allentown & Reading Traction Co., Hannah A. Ahrens, Executrix of Howard E. Ahrens, dec’d, P. A. Diener, George H. Gerber, Sol. K. Hoffman, P. S. Kinsey, W. D. Mohn, George B. Schaeffer, F. B. Wagner, Kutztown and Fleetwood Street Railway Company, John R. Miller, F.…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Ms. Justice Kephart,
This was a bill brought by an individual stockholder to redress injuries of a corporation (the Kutztown & Fleetwood Street Railway Company), in its right to have faithful performance of a contract with another corporation (the Allentown & Reading Traction Company), as lessee of the first company’s property. It was incumbent on complainant, Passmore, to set forth facts necessary to give him standing to assert rights that are ordinarily enforced by the corporation. The lease was between the corporation, of which he was a member, and the traction company as lessee.…
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