Evans's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the court at Nisi Prius, No. 56, to January Term 1870. In Equity. The bill in this case was filed March 19th 1870, by Manlius G. Evans and Hartman Kuhn, against Charles L. Borie, Henry P. líorie, Edward V. Maitland, Charles Wister, Samuel Wood, Edward M. Hopkins, Charles P. Bayard, Edward T. Shaw, Joseph C. Harris, William Harris, John P. Bell, Ezra Bowen, George S. Fox, Camille D’lnvilliers and the Keystone Zinc Company.
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Appeal from the court at Nisi Prius, No. 56, to January Term 1870. In Equity. The bill in this case was filed March 19th 1870, by Manlius G. Evans and Hartman Kuhn, against Charles L. Borie, Henry P. líorie, Edward V. Maitland, Charles Wister, Samuel Wood, Edward M. Hopkins, Charles P. Bayard, Edward T. Shaw, Joseph C. Harris, William Harris, John P. Bell, Ezra Bowen, George S. Fox, Camille D’lnvilliers and the Keystone Zinc Company. On the 9th of September 1870, an amendment to the bill was filed. On the 18th of December all the defendants except Wood, Shaw and William’ Harris filed answers.…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Mercur
This is substantially a corporation bill. It was filed by Evans and Kuhn, who are stockholders in the Keystone Zinc Company. Some two and a half years thereafter the bill was amended by adding two other stockholders as complainants.
The ground of complaint is, that in the formation of the company both the defendants and the plaintiffs were associated together ; that the defendants purchased certain mineral lands, and sold them to the corporation of which they were directors, for a *301sum many times greater than they actually paid for them ; that the price they paid was concealed from the…
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