Edwards v. Schillinger
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ of Error to the Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Parian Q. Bard, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Cartwright
The defendant in error, John B. Edwards, trustee in bankruptcy of Schillinger Bros. Asphalt Company, a corporation, filed his bill in the superior court of Cook county against the plaintiffs in error, Gustav A. Schillinger and A. C. Gumbing-er, stockholders of the corporation, to set aside a dividend declared by the directors in fraud of creditors and applied by the stockholders in payment of unpaid balances of their subscriptions to the capital stock, and to compel plaintiffs in error to pay the amount of their subscriptions represented by the fraudulent dividend certificates. The defendants…
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