Bates v. Great Western Telegraph Co.

This is a bill filed by the appellants to set aside, or declare inapplicable as to them, an interlocutory decree of the Circuit Court, made in another suit, pending on the chancery side of that court, whereby a receiver of the assets of the appellees was authorized to collect from the stockholders of that corporation, part of their unpaid subscription for stock.

The Circuit Court sustained a demurrer to their bill, and dismissed it for want of equity. Whether the appellants or any of them (they are thirty-four in number) are in the category of persons to be affected by the interlocutory…