Davenport v. Crowell
Supreme Court of Vermont
Appeal in Chancery, Windham County. Heard at Chambers, June 4, 1906, on the pleadings, master’s report and the orator’s motion for a receiver. Rowell, Chancellor. Decree, that the bill be dismissed with costs b> the defendants. The orator appealed.
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Appeal in Chancery, Windham County. Heard at Chambers, June 4, 1906, on the pleadings, master’s report and the orator’s motion for a receiver. Rowell, Chancellor. Decree, that the bill be dismissed with costs b> the defendants. The orator appealed. Besides what is stated in the opinion, the master reported that in 1888, soon after the Rand Avery Company had failed, ■defendant Crowell came to orator’s office and in substance informed orator of said failure; told him that the E. P. Carpenter Company would lose something, but not very much, thereby, and that he, Crowell, would put in money…
1Opinion of the CourtWatson, J.
The first question presented is whether defendant Crowell is liable to the E. P. Carpenter Company for loss or damage incurred through transactions of exchanging notes with the Rand Avery Company, a corporation of Boston.
The bill is brought by the orator as a stockholder in the former company, and if the case is otherwise made out, no question is made but that, in the circumstances shown, the bill is properly brought by him.
The E. P. Carpenter- Company was organized for business in this State in 1884 with a capital stock of twenty-five thousand dollars, divided into shares of the par value of…
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