Brown v. Cruce

Opinion by

BREWER, C.

This is a suit filed by Stephen Brown, as plaintiff, in the district court of Oklahoma county, against Lee Cruce and a score of other individuals as defendants, who, it is alleged, were the organizers and stockholders of a corporation known as the “Oklahoma Jamestown Exposition Company,” but that for the reason that the statutes did not, at the time, authorize the formation of a corporation for the purposes expressed in the charter of this one, the incorporators were general partners, and answerable individually for any indebtedness contracted by the pretended corporation.…