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In re Free Gold Mining Milling Co.

United States District Court, D. Montana
Jan 18, 1933
2 F. Supp. 118 (D. Mont. 1933)

Opinion

No. 4823.

January 18, 1933.

In the matter of the Free Gold Mining Milling Company, bankrupt. Petition by one who was president, director, and stockholder of bankrupt to vacate adjudication that the corporation was a voluntary bankrupt.

Petition granted.

John G. Brown and L. V. Ketter, both of Helena, Mont., for bankrupt.

C. E. Pew, of Helena, Mont., for petitioner J. L. Howard.


The petitioner to vacate the adjudication that the corporation is a voluntary bankrupt is its president and a director and stockholder. It appears that a majority of the directors having illegally assumed to remove petitioner and another from the board, also likewise assumed in special meeting convened without notice and at which petitioner was not present, to authorize the proceeding in bankruptcy.

The preliminaries invalid, and of this Montana corporation not the directors but stockholders only having power to authorize bankruptcy proceedings (In re Crystal Ice Co. (D.C.) 283 F. 1007, 1010, and compare General S. S. Corp. v. Astoria Overseas Corp. (C.C.A.) 294 F. 861), it is clear the adjudication was inadvertently, by mistake, and erroneously made. Accordingly, timely application in the nature of intervention by one interested as a stockholder, to vacate the decree which otherwise operates to his injury, to that of the corporation, and to others not before the court, is appropriate procedure to defeat breach of trust, ultra vires acts, abuse of judicial power, and failure of justice. And in the circumstances the petitioner is not obliged to first seek redress within the corporation. The petition is granted. Order accordingly.


Summaries of

In re Free Gold Mining Milling Co.

United States District Court, D. Montana
Jan 18, 1933
2 F. Supp. 118 (D. Mont. 1933)
Case details for

In re Free Gold Mining Milling Co.

Case Details

Full title:In re FREE GOLD MINING MILLING CO

Court:United States District Court, D. Montana

Date published: Jan 18, 1933

Citations

2 F. Supp. 118 (D. Mont. 1933)

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