Central Railroad & Banking Co. v. Papot
Supreme Court of Georgia
Stock. Dividends. "Witness. Evidence. Principal and agent. Before Judge Hill. Bibb Superior Court. October Adjourned Term, 1876. The following, taken in connection with the decision, sufficiently reports this case: Papot swore that Ketchum & Hartridge were brokers, and were the agents of Shorter, Papot & Co., (of which firm complainants were survivors) authorized to receive stock for that firm, sell, and deposit the proceeds to their credit.
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Stock. Dividends. "Witness. Evidence. Principal and agent. Before Judge Hill. Bibb Superior Court. October Adjourned Term, 1876. The following, taken in connection with the decision, sufficiently reports this case: Papot swore that Ketchum & Hartridge were brokers, and were the agents of Shorter, Papot & Co., (of which firm complainants were survivors) authorized to receive stock for that firm, sell, and deposit the proceeds to their credit. Holt, as appeared from the evidence, was president of the Southwestern Eailroad. The Central Eailroad Company became the lessee of that road, and…
1Opinion of the Court
Warner, Chief Justice.
This was a bill filed by the complainants against the Southwestern Eailroad Company, with a prayer, on the allegations contained therein, that it be decreed to issue to the complainants scrip for stock in its company to the amount of $5,-300.00, and to pay to them the dividends thereon from the first of February, 1872, in pursuance of the annexed contract, which was approved by the board of directors of the Central Eailroad and Banking Company of Georgia, the lessee of said Southwestern Eailroad Company, and which was made a party defendant to the complainants’ bill:
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