Theis v. Spokane Falls Gas Light Co.
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Spokane county, Belt, J., entered July 3, 1903, after a trial upon the merits before the court without a jury, dismissing an action brought by a stockholder to enjoin the sale of the entire property of a corporation.
1Opinion of the CourtDunbar, J.
The Spokane Gas Light Company, a corporation, one of the respondents herein, was organized under the general incorporation laws of the state of Washington in the year 1887. Its life, under the articles of incorporation, was fifty years. In March, 1903, three companies of eastern bond buyers, viz., N. W. Halsey & Co., Farson, Leach & Co., and Cyrus Pierce & Co., purchased the bonds outstanding against this corporation, and formed a syndicate for the purpose of purchasing the shares of stock of the corporation, and sent a member of the firm of Cyrus Pierce & Co., Isaac W. Anderson, to Spokane…
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