Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States

Reaves v. Oliver

168 U.S. 704

Type
Opinion
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction
Federal
Date
1897-11-01
Topic
general

How later courts describe this case

  • defendants were pledgees of plaintiff shareholder’s stock and through calculated acts of mismanagement sought to diminish the value of plaintiff’s stock so as to be able to acquire it cheaply for themselves

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Per Cuodam.

The order or decree sought to be reviewed was not final but interlocutory, and the writ of error and the appeal must be dismissed. Acts September 24,1789, c. 20, '§§ 13, 22,1 Stat. 81, 84; March 3, 1803, c. 40, 2 Stat.- 244; Rev. Stat. §§ 691, 692; Act March 3, 1891, c. 517, 26 Stat. 826; Forgay v. Conrad, 6 How. 201, 205 ; McLish v. Roff, 141 U. S. 661; American Construction Co. v. Jacksonville, Tampa &c. Railway, 148 *705 U. S. 372, 378; Smith v. Vulcan Iron Works, 165 U. S. 518, 521.

Mr. Frank B. Crosthwaiie for plaintiff in error and appellant.