Doughty
Doughty v. Moors
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Hart, J.
A demurrer, interposed to plaintiff’s amended complaint, was sustained, plaintiff declined further to amend, and judgment was entered in favor of defendants, from which judgment plaintiff appeals.
The allegations of the amended complaint are: That the Electric and Garage Company was a corporation; that C. W. Crouch “was the owner of a large majority of.t and all but one of .the issued and outstanding shares of the capital stock of,” said corporation, “and he was its president and general man ager; that the remaining shares” stood upon the books of the corporation in the name of S. Grace Crouch, who was the secretary of said corporation and the wife of said C. W. Crouch; that on the 18th of October, 1915, certain creditors of the corporation filed, in the United States district court, a petition in involuntary bankruptcy, and that, on the 3d of January, 1916, said court made an order adjudging said corporation a bankrupt and referred the matter to the referee in bankruptcy; that on the fifteenth day of February, 1916, the creditors elected and appointed plaintiff as trustee of the estate of said corporation, which action was approved by the referee, and plaintiff duly qualified as…