Harle-Haas Drug Co. v. Rogers Drug Co.
Wyoming Supreme Court
Error to the District Court, Natrona County, Hon. Charles E. Carpenter, Judge. The material facts are stated in the opinion. It was error for the court to admit, over objection, testimony tending to show that Tobin, the mortgagee and in-tervener, was not a stockholder and director of the defendant company. Two shares of stock were issued to him and he testified that he was told that he would be given two shares of stock.
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Error to the District Court, Natrona County, Hon. Charles E. Carpenter, Judge. The material facts are stated in the opinion. It was error for the court to admit, over objection, testimony tending to show that Tobin, the mortgagee and in-tervener, was not a stockholder and director of the defendant company. Two shares of stock were issued to him and he testified that he was told that he would be given two shares of stock. For him to deny that he was a member and dh> rector of the corporation would be and ought to be considered as an admission of his intent to launch the corporation by evading…
1Opinion of the Court
Potter, Justice.
The Harle-Haas Drug Company brought an action in the District Court against the Rogers Drug Company, a corporation, to recover a judgment for money alleged to be due on an account for goods sold and delivered. In that action a receiver was' appointed of the property and *45effects of the defendant company on the motion of the plaintiff, with the consent of Stephen Tobin, who, on the same day that the action was commenced, had taken possession, under a chattel mortgage previously executed in his favor, of the stock of goods and store fixtures of the defendant, the same comprising…
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