Burgess v. Seligman
Supreme Court of the United States
• Error to the Circuit Court of tbe United States for tbe Eastern District of Missouri. Tbe case is stated in tbe opinion of tbe court.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Bradley
This is an action brought by the plaintiff, Burgess, against J. & W. Seligman & Co., as stockholders of the Memphis, Carthage, and Northwestern Railroad.Company, under a statute of the State of Missouri to recover a debt due to him by the company. The plaintiff, in his petition, alleges that on the 5th of November, 1874, judgment was rendered in-his favor against the corporation' by the District Court of Cherokee County, Kansas, for $78,661, which remains unsatisfied; that in December, 1874, the Corporation was dissolved; and that the defendants, at the date of the dissolution and of the…
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