Scofield Rolling Mill Co. v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Corporations. Principal and agent. Torts. State. Frauds. Estoppel. New trial. Newly discovered evidence. Mistake. Before Judge Hopkins. Fulton Superior Court.
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Corporations. Principal and agent. Torts. State. Frauds. Estoppel. New trial. Newly discovered evidence. Mistake. Before Judge Hopkins. Fulton Superior Court. October Term, 1874. When this casffWs called, it was announced to the court that the property of the Scofield Rolling Mill Company had been placed in the hands of a receiver at the instance of its creditors, on a bill filed against it; that these creditors were largely interested in this litigation ; that they were represented by Lochrane & Milledge, counselors at law, and asked to be heard through said counsel upon the argument. This…
1Opinion of the Court
Jackson, Judge.
This suit was brought by the state, under an act of the general assembly, approved on the 15th of December, 1871. That act provides that “ money or property stolen from the state or the Western and Atlantic Railroad, or fraudulently or unlawfully detained from the same, and any money or property of which the said road or the state may have been in any manner defrauded, or which is unlawfully detained from the same, or that may hereafter be in any manner unlawfully detained, may be recovered from the person perpetrating the fraud or guilty of the conversion, or from any person…
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