REFERENCE TABLE OF SUCH CASES DECIDED IN U. S. SUPREME COURT, OCTOBER TERM, 1899. 20-21 Quackenbush v. United States 654 104-105 United States v. Elder 690 66 172-173 Camden & S. R. Co. v. Stetson 721 276-278 Arnold v. Hatch 177-178 Forsyth v. Vehmeyer HereOff. Rep.l Here in. 762 66 763 66 764 765 766 767 768 769 769 178-180 Here Title. Mast F. & Co. v. Stover Mfg. in. 856 857 858 859 66 860 Mast F. & v. Stover Mfg. 861 861 862 863 863 864 THE DECISIONS OF THE Supreme Court of the United States at OCTOBER TERM, 1899. [1]*FELIX JELLENIK, George Shiras, 3d, C. C. Dickey, Trustee, et al., Appts., v. Statement by Mr. Justice Harlan: *This is an appeal from a deeree of the cir- [2] cuit court of the United States for the west HURON COPPER MINING COMPANY, J. ern district of Michigan dismissing the bill C. Watson, et al. (See S. C. Reporter's ed. 1-14.) of the plaintiffs, appellants here, for want of jurisdiction over some of the defendants who were held to be indispensable parties to the suit. The case made by the bill is as follows: Actions bringing in parties-shares of The plaintiffs are stockholders of the Huron stock as personal property. Copper Mining Company and citizens of other states than Michigan. The company is a Michigan corporation, the mines operated by it, all its other property, and its principal offices for business being at Houghton, Michigan, with a branch office at Boston, Massachusetts. 1. Shares of stock in a Michigan corporation, being by the laws of that state deemed personal property, must be so considered within the meaning of the act of Congress of March 3, 1875, authorizing an order to bring in absent defendants who are not inhabitants of or found within the district in a sult to reDuring the transactions complained of in move any encumbrance or lien or cloud upon the bill, the board of directors of the comthe title to real or personal property within pany, whose members are the other defendthe district where such suit is brought. ants in this suit, were J. C. Watson, D. L. 2. The law of a state making shares of corpo- Demmon, Samuel L. Smith, H. J. Stevens, rate stock personal property should be enforced and Johnson Vivian. Watson, Demmon, and by a circuit court of the United States sit-Stevens (the last-named having since died) ting in that state, as part of the law of the state in respect of corporations created by it. [No. 100.] ident and Demmon secretary and treasurer were residents of Boston, Watson being pres of the company. They had charge and control of the branch office in Boston. Smith resided at Detroit, Michigan, but was fre Argued and Submitted January 16, 1900. quently in Boston. Vivian resided at HoughDecided March 12, 1900. APPEAL from a decree of the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Michigan dismissing a bill for want of jurisdiction over indispensable parties. Reversed. See same case below, 82 Fed. Rep. 778. NOTE.-A8 to state laws as rules of decision in Federal courts-see notes to Griffin v. Over man Wheel Co. 9 C. C. A. 548; Wilson v. Per ton, Michigan, and was for many years the general manager of the mining operations and the business of the company at its mining location in Houghton county. Smith and Vivian disclaimed any connection with in the bill, but were put upon their proof by the alleged fraudulent transactions set forth the plaintiffs as to the matters stated there in. In June, 1890, the board of directors made an assessment upon the capital stock of the rin, 11 C. C. A. 71; Hill v. Hite, 29 C. C. A. Company of $5 per share *payable on July 7th [8] of that year. Notice of the assessment was 553. |