Brown v. Weeks
Michigan Supreme Court
Appeal from Kent; McDonald, J. Bill by George C. Brown, trustee in bankruptcy of the Coronet Corset Company, against Eugene J. Weeks, Cornelius Kelly and others for a decree enforcing certain unpaid stock subscriptions. From the decree entered, plaintiff and defendants Weeks and Kelly appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtStone, J.
The bill of complaint herein was filed against the defendants as stockholders and incorporators of the Coronet Corset Company, bankrupt, to enforce their alleged unpaid stock subscriptions, and to .compel them to pay a sufficient sum to liquidate the unpaid portion of the debts allowed against said bankrupt, in the bankruptcy proceedings.
As stated by complainant, the controversy centers chiefly around the questions whether the incorporators actually turned in for common stock the property stated in the articles to have been so turned in; whether such property, if actually turned in for common…
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