(Download) "New Lamp Chimney Company v. Ansonia Brass and Copper Company" by United States Supreme Court ~ Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: New Lamp Chimney Company v. Ansonia Brass and Copper Company
- Author : United States Supreme Court
- Release Date : January 01, 1875
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 80 KB
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Corporations, whether moneyed, business, or commercial, and joint-stock companies, are subject to the provisions of the Bankrupt Act; and the thirty-seventh section of the act provides to the effect, that upon the petition of any officer of any such corporation or company, duly authorized by a vote of a majority of the corporators at any legal meeting called for the purpose, or upon the petition of any creditor or creditors of the same, made and presented in the manner provided in respect to other debtors, the like proceedings shall be had and taken as are required in other cases of voluntary or involuntary bankruptcy; but the same section provides that no allowance or discharge shall be granted to any corporation or joint-stock company, or to any person or officer or member thereof. 14 Stat. 535. Nine overdue promissory notes executed by the corporation defendants were held by the corporation plaintiffs, amounting to the sum of $5,266.94; and they instituted the present suit in the Supreme Court of the State to recover the amount.
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