Gow v. Collin & Parker Lumber Co.
Michigan Supreme Court
Appeal from Muskegon; Russell, J. Bill by James Gow and another to establish the individual liability of the stockholders in the Collin & Parker Lumber Company for the payment of its debts, to foreclose certain mortgages, and for other relief. Prom a decreé dismissing the bill on demurrer of the defendant John A. Elwell, complainants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtMoore, J.
The complainants, James Gow and John ■Campbell, are copartners composing the firm of Gow & Campbell, engaged in a general lumber business at North Muskegon, where they own a mill. July 30, 1890, the defendants William W. Collin, Charles H. Parker, and John A. Elwell incorporated under the name of the *46Collin & Parker Lumber Company, for the purpose of “the purchase, manufacture, and sale of lumber, shingles, and other forest products, and carrying on a general lumbering bhsiness, and, incident thereto, to purchase and sell timber lands and timber,” and to that end executed and filed articles…
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