Self v. Langley Mills

The decree reads as follows:

The petitioners in the above-stated case are stockholders of the Langley Mills, owing some of its first preferred stock; a larger amount of common stock, and a very considerable portion of second preferred stock. As such stockholders they brought this petition for mandamus against the defendant corporation and against George E. Spofford, he being the only one of its directors who is a resident of the State of South Carolina. The material allegations of the petition are as follows:

That the defendant the Langley Mills is a corporation organized and doing business…