McSherry
McSherry v. Pennsylvania Consolidated Gold Mining Co.
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Fitzgerald, J.
The record in this case contains two appeals, — one from an order denying defendants’ motion for a change of place of trial, the other from an order denying defendants’ motion to dissolve an injunction. The action was for an accounting, and for the recovery of certain shares of the capital stock of the defendant corporation, alleged to have been illegally sold for delinquent assessments to the said corporation, who thereafter declared a stock dividend and distributed thirty per cent of plaintiff’s stock to its stockholders, the individual defendants herein, who, it is alleged, fraudulently conspired together, and in pursuance of such conspiracy did fraudulently deprive plaintiff of his stock so sold and distributed as aforesaid. Plaintiff also obtained an order restraining and enjoining all of the defendants from disposing of any of said stock, and from levying any further assessments upon the outstanding capital stock of the defendant corporation, until the termination of this action.
The application for a change of place of trial was made by each and all of the defendants at the time of filing their demurrer, and before answering, on the ground “ that the county designated in…