Kelly v. Killian

This was a suit by plaintiff in error, Ella Kelly, against Gr. W. Killian, defendant in error, to compel him as the owner of unpaid stock of the Mississippi Valley Railway Company, to pay a note given by that company to M. M. Kelly, and assigned to her for a valuable consideration.

It appears from the proofs that in October, 1893, Killian, with four associates, organized the Mississippi Valley Railway Company, under the laws of this State, with a capital stock of $3,000,000 divided into 30,000 shares of the par value of $100 each. Killian was named as one of the five persons constituting the…