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... Groesbeck for twenty - five cents on the dollar , in direct violation of a general law which forbade any railroad company to sell its stock for less than par . Groesbeck was not only unscrupulous enough to become a party to this fraudu ...
... Groesbeck for twenty - five cents on the dollar , in direct violation of a general law which forbade any railroad company to sell its stock for less than par . Groesbeck was not only unscrupulous enough to become a party to this fraudu ...
Page 117
... Groesbeck should vote the 2,400 fraudulent shares held by him , the Church men would still have a majority of 2,864 . Judge Barnard , at the instance of Mr. Bush , a member of the Church party , put Groesbeck hors de combat by an in ...
... Groesbeck should vote the 2,400 fraudulent shares held by him , the Church men would still have a majority of 2,864 . Judge Barnard , at the instance of Mr. Bush , a member of the Church party , put Groesbeck hors de combat by an in ...
Page 123
... Groesbeck had been enjoined , and his 2,400 fraud- ulent shares had been put into the hands of a receiver to be held , so that Groesbeck could not vote them . The Ramsey men , on the morn- ing of the election , undertook to trump this ...
... Groesbeck had been enjoined , and his 2,400 fraud- ulent shares had been put into the hands of a receiver to be held , so that Groesbeck could not vote them . The Ramsey men , on the morn- ing of the election , undertook to trump this ...
Page 125
... Groesbeck were pronounced valid stock , ' and numerous precedents were cited in which the principle had been sus- tained . Even the injudicious subscription for the 9,500 new shares of stock by Ramsey and his friends , on which they had ...
... Groesbeck were pronounced valid stock , ' and numerous precedents were cited in which the principle had been sus- tained . Even the injudicious subscription for the 9,500 new shares of stock by Ramsey and his friends , on which they had ...
Page 128
... Groesbeck stock was voted for them besides under an injunction of their opponents . Mr. Adams informs us that Ramsey did not attempt to vote any part of the 9,500 shares . If he voted only those bona fide shares which he held , and had ...
... Groesbeck stock was voted for them besides under an injunction of their opponents . Mr. Adams informs us that Ramsey did not attempt to vote any part of the 9,500 shares . If he voted only those bona fide shares which he held , and had ...
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