Anthony v. Jeffress
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil actioN tried at May Term, 1915, of Pitt, before Whedbee, J. At tbe conclusion of tbe evidence tbe court sustained tbe motion to\ nonsuit. Tbe plaintiff excepted and appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtBeoww, J.
This action is brought to recover from the defendants, directors of the corporation known as the Central Mercantile Company, damages for negligence in the management of the affairs of the corporation, and against the defendant Wooten, president of the corporation, for willful misrepresentation as to its solvency, upon the faith of which plaintiff alleges he sold a bill of goods to the company.
■ - The evidence tends to prove that the corporation was organized in 1909 with these defendants as directors, or those that were not directors then, became so shortly after; that a finance committee was…
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