Evans v. Illinois Surety Co.
Appellate Court of Illinois
Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Denis E. Sullivan, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the October term, 1919.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Matchett
April 19, 1916, a bill and petition were filed in the superior court of Cook county by fifty-four stockholders of the Illinois Surety Company. These set up that the corporation was organized under the laws of the State of Illinois for the purpose of doing a surety business, but that it was, in fact, insolvent. The bill prayed for the appointment of a receiver, and that upon a final hearing a decree dissolving the corporation and providing for the distribution of its assets to its creditors might be entered.
The Surety Company alone was made defendant to the bill and petition. On the same day…
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