Moore v. Universal Elevator Co.
Michigan Supreme Court
Appeal from Wayne; Daboll, J., presiding. Bill by Charles W. Moore against the Universal Elevator Company, Frank E. and James N. Schoonmaker, William Livingstone, Jr., and others, to determine the priority of liens. From the decree rendered, the above-named defendants appeal.
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Appeal from Wayne; Daboll, J., presiding. Bill by Charles W. Moore against the Universal Elevator Company, Frank E. and James N. Schoonmaker, William Livingstone, Jr., and others, to determine the priority of liens. From the decree rendered, the above-named defendants appeal. In the summer of 1895 the defendants Frank and James Schoonmaker and Hultgren were copartners, doing business under the firm name of Schoonmaker Bros. & Co. Their business was that of selling engines and elevators and general lines of machines. They owned no property except some interests in certain elevator patents.…
1Opinion of the CourtGrant, C. J.
(after stating the facts). 1. A large part of the record is taken up with, testimony relative to the agreement between complainant and Schoonmaker Bros. & Co. relative to the conditions under which complainant became a stockholder in the corporation. It is immaterial what those private arrangements were. Upon ibis point the testimony is in sharp conflict. It is not necessary to determine what rights Mr. Moore has against his co-corporators and the defendant corporation. That controversy concerns them alone, and is not before us. The controversy now is between Mr. Moore and the bonus givers,…
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