Empire Hotel Co. v. Main
Supreme Court of Georgia
Petitiou for injunction, etc. Before Judge Milner. "Whitfield county. H. K. Main brought his petition for the appointment of a receiver to take charge of the affairs and property of the Empire Hotel Company; and for injunction restraining the directors and common stockholders of the company from interfering with its affairs and from prosecuting any suit against it; and for general relief.
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Petitiou for injunction, etc. Before Judge Milner. "Whitfield county. H. K. Main brought his petition for the appointment of a receiver to take charge of the affairs and property of the Empire Hotel Company; and for injunction restraining the directors and common stockholders of the company from interfering with its affairs and from prosecuting any suit against it; and for general relief. The company filed a demurrer and answer; whereupon the plaintiff moved to amend by making parties defendant, T. B. Jones, B. I. Peak, S. E. Berry, A. W. Lynn, G. "VY. Hamilton, J. "VY. Barrett and W. H.…
1Opinion of the Court
Lumpkin, Justice.
The facts of this case are numerous and somewhat complicated, and in the argument before this court quite a number of legal questions were presented. However, as the case, in our judgment, should have been made to turn upon the controlling propositions announced in the first headnotej we shall limit our remarks accordingly.
It was charged that the directors, after advancing money to the hotel company, and accepting for the same preferred stock of the corporation, subsequently unlawfully *183cancelled this stock, issued to themselves promissory notes of the company in lieu thereof,…
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