Von Auw v. Chicago Toy & Fancy Goods Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the Northern District of Illnois
This was a creditors’ bill filed by complainants, Von Auw and others, against the Chicago Toy & Fancy Goods Company and others. Defendants demur to the bill for want of jurisdiction and on the ground of multifariousness.
1Opinion of the Court
JENKINS, Circuit Judge.
The complainants, as judgment creditors of the corporation defendant, filed a creditors’ bill in favor of themselves and of other creditors of the judgment debtor, and charge: First. That the corporation defendant was organized on the 26th of February, 1890, by the defendants Meyer, Cohen, and Meyer, with a capital stock of $10,000, Gustave Meyer subscribing for 52 shares, Cohen for 47 shares, and Marcus Meyer for 1 share, and that said defendants elected themselves directors of the company, *449and continued so to act up to the time that the company ceased business;…
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