McMullen
J. F. Lucey Co. v. McMullen
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Richards, J.
T his is an appeal from a judgment in favor of plaintiff and also from an order refusing to set aside said judgment and enter a judgment for the defendant. As to this latter appeal it is unnecessary to consider it separately, since the same matters presented thereon arise upon the appeal from the judgment. (Hayne on New Trial and Appeal, sec. 199.) The action was one brought by the plaintiff as a judgment creditor of the OaklandMcKittrick Oil Company, a corporation, and also as the assignee of two other judgments against said corporation, and is one in which the plaintiff seeks to recover from the defendant an amount sufficient to satisfy these several judgments for which the said defendant is alleged to be liable by virtue of the fact that the defendant was, at the time the indebtedness represented by said judgments arose, a stockholder of the said Oakland-McKittrick Oil Company, holding twenty-five thousand shares of its capital stock of the par value of one dollar per share. The complaint proceeds to allege upon information and belief, “that the said defendant paid no sum of money or other thing of value, to said Oakland-McKittrick Oil Company, or to any other person, or at…