William E. Dee Co. v. Proviso Coal Co.
Appellate Court of Illinois
Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Martin M. Gridley, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the March term, 1917.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Matohett
These are appeals separate (hut consolidated here) by certain defendants from a decree entered by the Superior Court of Cook county. Appellees, complainants, are creditors of the defendant Proviso Coal. Company, a corporation, and sued in equity to collect the unpaid portion of the subscription of appellants, James S. Stephens and Oliver J. Westcott, to the capital stock of said corporation. The action is brought under section 25 of the Corporation Act (J. & A. ¶ 2442).
The bill, in substance, charges that Stephens and Westcott, who organized the corporation, and at the time controlled it,…
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