Camden v. Stuart
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEALS FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE' UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF WEST VIRGINIA. The court stated the case as follows: These were appeals from, a decree requiring the appellant-Stuart to pay the sum of $18,937.08, and appellant Camden the sum of $9195.12, these being the amounts unpaid upon certain subscriptions made by them to the stock of the Green-brier White Sulphur Springs Company.
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APPEALS FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE' UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF WEST VIRGINIA. The court stated the case as follows: These were appeals from, a decree requiring the appellant-Stuart to pay the sum of $18,937.08, and appellant Camden the sum of $9195.12, these being the amounts unpaid upon certain subscriptions made by them to the stock of the Green-brier White Sulphur Springs Company. The facts of the case were substantially as follows: On January 30, 1880, appellants Stuart and Camden and one George L. Peyton agreed to organize the Greenbrier White Sulphur Springs Company for the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brown
delivered the opinion of the court.. The single question involved in these appeals is whether the defendants Stuart and Camden can be called upon to pay in their proportions of unpaid subscriptions to the capital stock of the White.Sulphur Springs Company.
The capital stock of this company was fixed at $150,000, and the certificate of incorporation of December 3, 1880, stated that $50,000 had been “ paid in on said subscriptions.”(1) As to defendant Stuart.
Stuart’s answer, in this connection, avers that “ it is true, as stated in the application for the charter, that $50,000 of said capital…
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