White v. New Bedford Cotton Waste Corp.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract to recover $1,000 paid by the plaintiff to the defendant upon his subscription while a minor for ten shares of the capital stock of the defendant. Writ dated January 14, 1899. The case was heard in the Superior Court by Bell, J., upon the following agreed facts : The defendant corporation was organized under Pub. Sts. c. 106, on April 30,1894. The capital stock authorized by its charter was 175,000, and the par value of its shares was fixed at $100 each.
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Contract to recover $1,000 paid by the plaintiff to the defendant upon his subscription while a minor for ten shares of the capital stock of the defendant. Writ dated January 14, 1899. The case was heard in the Superior Court by Bell, J., upon the following agreed facts : The defendant corporation was organized under Pub. Sts. c. 106, on April 30,1894. The capital stock authorized by its charter was 175,000, and the par value of its shares was fixed at $100 each. At the first meeting of the corporation one Caswell was elected treasurer.. Caswell, as treasurer of the corporation, in…
1Opinion of the CourtMorton, J.
The plaintiff, a minor, originally brought suit against the defendant corporation and the Mount Pleasant Mills Corporation. When that case came to trial he elected to proceed against the Mount Pleasant Mills alone, and discontinued as to the present defendant. The Mount Pleasant Mills had judgment and the plaintiff appealed and the judgment was affirmed by this court. The case is reported in 172 Mass. 462, and the material facts are the same in this case as they were in that. This action was brought after the case against the Mount Pleasant Mills was disposed of. It is manifest that the…
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