Murphy v. Panton
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for King county, Smith, J., entered May 1, 1916, in favor of the defendants, in an action to recover unpaid stock subscriptions, tried to the court.
1Opinion of the CourtChadwick, J.
— This suit was brought to recover upon unpaid stock subscriptions. Respondents London, Atkinson, and Wolfe are charged as subscribers to the capital stock of the John Panton Company, formerly the Edwin London Company, and later the London Panton Company, a corporation organized under the laws of this state.
Appellant contends that their liability rests primarily in the records of the company, and secondarily in the doctrine of estoppel. To make a prima facie case, counsel introduced the following record of date December 30, 1911, from the minute book of the company:
“On motion of John Panton,…
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