Taber v. Royal Insurance
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Jefferson Chancery Court. Heard before Hon. Thomas Cobbs. The Royal Insurance Company was an incorporated fire insurance company, with its principal place of businc ss at Birmingham, Alabama. It became Insolvent. Its president and secretary, as stockholders, filed a bill praying that a receiver be appointed, and its assets distributed by the court.
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Appeal from Jefferson Chancery Court. Heard before Hon. Thomas Cobbs. The Royal Insurance Company was an incorporated fire insurance company, with its principal place of businc ss at Birmingham, Alabama. It became Insolvent. Its president and secretary, as stockholders, filed a bill praying that a receiver be appointed, and its assets distributed by the court. The receiver was appointed, but nothing more was done in the suit; and immediately after filing their bill the complainants left the State. After-wards this suit was brought by several creditors of the company in behalf of themselves…
1Per curiam
— This was a general creditors’ bill, to marshal and apply to the payment of debts, the assets of the Royal Insurance Company, of Birmingham, an insolvent fire insurance company. The bill was filed on the 17th April, 1888, and on August 17th, 1893, a final decree was rendered adjudging that the company was insolvent on the lltli April, 1888, and had so continued; that complainants were creditors; and that the stockholder's were liable to the creditors, in specific amounts, aggregating $89,550, upon their unpaid subscription for stock; and the register was required to give notice to the…
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