Case Name: Madden, Appellant, v. Penn Electric Light Company
Court: Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Decision Date: 1901-05-27
Citations: 199 Pa. 454
Docket Number: Appeal, No. 340
Parties: Madden, Appellant, v. Penn Electric Light Company.
Judges: Before Mitchell, Fell, Bbown, Mestbezat and Potteb, JJ.
Reporter: Pennsylvania State Reports
Volume: 199
Pages: 454–455

Head Matter:
Madden, Appellant, v. Penn Electric Light Company.
Corporations—Foreign corporations—Internal management — Jurisdiction.
The courts of Pennsylvania will not take jurisdiction of matters relating to the internal management of a foreign corporation on a dispute between such corporation and one or more of its own stockholders.
Submitted March 25, 1901.
Appeal, No. 340, Jan. T., 1901, by plaintiff, from decree of C.' P. No. 4, Phila. Co., Dec. T., 1899, No. 1377, dismissing bill in equity in case of James Madden, Administrator of Stephen Madden, v. The Penn Electric Light Company and the Philadelphia Electric Company.
Before Mitchell, Fell, Bbown, Mestbezat and Potteb, JJ.
Affirmed.
Bill in equity for a receiver and for an accounting.
The court sustained a demurrer and dismissed the bill.
Error assigned was in dismissing the bill.
James W. M. Newlin, for appellant.
R. Stuart Smith and Charles E. Morgan, Jr., for appellees..
May 27, 1901:

Opinion:
Opinion by
Mb. Justice Mitchell,
This is an effort to avoid the effect of the decision in Madden v.The Penn Electric Light Co., 181 Pa. 617, by variation or omission of some of the averments of the bill in that case, and thus to get a rehearing of the same matters. But the substantial ground of action is the same and falls within the prin ciple of that case, that the courts of Pennsylvania will not take jurisdiction of matters relating to the internal management of a foreign corporation, on a dispute between such corporation and one or more of its own stockholders.
Decree affirmed.