Stevens v. Tilden

Appeal from an order overruling defendant’s demurrer to tbe complaint on tbe grounds of its failure to state a cause of action and of plaintiff’s legal incapacity to sue. Tbe action is for recovery of tbe balance due on a corporate stock subscription, and, in addition to tbe usual averments, it is alleged, in effect, that tbe minority stockholders of tbe corporation filed a petition and bill in equity in tbe United States Circuit Court for tbe Northern District of West Virginia, its borne, charging its officers and directors with mismanagement, and praying their enjoinment from disposing of…