Gores v. Day
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from an order of the circuit court for Milwaukee county: D. H. JonNSON, Circuit Judge. The substance of the complaint is that the Plankinton Rank, a corporation that had existed for upward of six years prior to the 1st day of June, 1893, in the city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and there conducted a large banking business, on that day made an assignment to William Plankinton, for the benefit of its creditors; that there were about 800 of such creditors, representing…
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Appeal from an order of the circuit court for Milwaukee county: D. H. JonNSON, Circuit Judge. The substance of the complaint is that the Plankinton Rank, a corporation that had existed for upward of six years prior to the 1st day of June, 1893, in the city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and there conducted a large banking business, on that day made an assignment to William Plankinton, for the benefit of its creditors; that there were about 800 of such creditors, representing claims aggregating over $1,400,000, $220 of which was due the plaintiff; that the defendants, for several years prior to such…
1Opinion of the CourtMaeshall, J.
The above statement, without adopting the language of the complaint, sufficiently shows the nature of the action and the facts alleged in support of it. In the briefs of counsel the complaint is treated in so many aspects that it is difficult to determine therefrom what the pleader intended. It is said that the action is in equity for an accounting of corporate assets negligently lost; that it is an action for losses to the creditors by mismanagement; that it is an action for damages; that it is an action to enforce a personal liability to plaintiff and the other creditors; that it is an…
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