Buda Foundry & Manufacturing Co. v. Columbian Celebration Co.
Appellate Court of Illinois
Memorandum.—In Chancery. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook County; the Hon. Murray F. Tuley, Judge, presiding. Bill against a corporation and its stockholders, under section 25, chapter 32, R. S. Hearing and bill dismissed; appeal by complainant. Heard in tins court at the October term, 1894.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gary
delivered the opihioh of the Court.
The appellant filed the bill in this case as a simple contract creditor against the Columbian Company and its stockholders, under Sec. 25, Ch. 32, Corporations, to obtain payment, and asked in the prayer of the bill that the business of the corporation be closed up, and the corporation dissolved.
It is now objected on behalf of the Columbian Company that this prayer takes the appeal out of the jurisdiction of this court, because it involves a franchise. But the bill having been dismissed below upon demurrer, the question now is, not whether the appellant is…
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