Greathouse v. Martin
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Second District, in an appeal from Wise County. Greathouse, executor of a deceased stockholder in the Wise County Coal Company, sued Martin, its treasurer and manager, and others, seeking, among other things, to recover, for the benefit of the company and its stockholders, the money appropriated by Martin as salary.
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Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Second District, in an appeal from Wise County. Greathouse, executor of a deceased stockholder in the Wise County Coal Company, sued Martin, its treasurer and manager, and others, seeking, among other things, to recover, for the benefit of the company and its stockholders, the money appropriated by Martin as salary. It was claimed that the order allowing the salary was void because procured in his own interest, by defendant and other directors who were mere “dummies” under his control, and that the amount was unreasonable. Plaintiff recovered in…
1Opinion of the Court
BROWN, Associate Justice.
From the opinion of the Court of Civil Appeals we copy the following statement:
This suit, “as originally instituted, was by George R. Greathouse as the legal representative of Henry Greathouse, deceased, who had been a stockholder in the Wise County Coal Company, among other things to recover in behalf of the estate of the deceased and of the Wise County Coal Company and of all other stockholders who might see proper to come in and join the plaintiff, about $30,000 of moneys of the said coal company, alleged to have been unlawfully appropriated by C. W. Martin, acting…
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- Willett v. RichMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1886
- Santa Clara Mining Ass'n v. MeredithCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1878
- P. J. Willis & Bro. v. HudsonTexas Supreme Court · 1885
- Hill v. AllisonTexas Supreme Court · 1879
- Funk v. ProcterCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1901
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