Stewart v. Rutherford
Supreme Court of Georgia
Corporations. Fraud. Equity. Stock and Stockholders. Parties. Jurisdiction. Venue. Before Judge Brown. Lumpkin Superior Court. October Term, 1884. Reported in the decision.
1Opinion of the Court
Jackson, Chief Justice.
Rutherford filed a bill in equity against a mining company, chartered in West Virginia, to do a gold-digging business in lands to be purchased in Georgia, and against his co-stockholders therein. The bill alleged, in substance, that the other stockholders — some by false and fraudulent representations touching the mine to be purchased and another mine, stock in which was given him as collateral security, and all of them with knowledge of the fraud, the other two haying a bond for titles to the mine to be purchased, and being cognizant of the condition of it and the…
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