Court Opinion

ID: 6673220
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-20 21:13:58.570644+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:00:36.786436
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By the Court.
The original proceeding in this case was an action for the appointment of a receiver, marshaling of liens and the foreclosure *415of a mortgage. A cross-petition was filed on behalf of Daniel W. Murphy, administrator of the estate of Otto Smith, -deceased, seating up a judgment obtained against The Cincinnati & Columbus Traction Company for wrongful death and seeking' to secure payment -of balances due on subscriptions for stock made by numerous stockholders of said traction company. An .order had been made in this case directing the receiver to proceed to the collection of any balances that might be due upon said stock subscriptions.
The court of common pleas sustained the demurrers to -the amended supplemental cross-petition of said Daniel W. Murphy, administrator, and, said cross-petitioner having -elected to stand on the averments of said amended supplemental cross-petition, and declining further to amend -or plead, a judgment was -entered dismissing such amended supplemental cross-petition at the cost of said cross-petitioner. To this judgment notice of appeal was given by said Murphy, administrator, and proceedings taken to perfect an appeal in this -court.
The case coming on to be heard in this court a motion to dismiss the appeal for want of' jurisdiction is filed.
' The jurisdiction in appeal, of the court of appeals, is fixed by Section 6,' Article IV of the amended Constitution, which gives the right 'of appeal -only in -chancery cases. The case of Wagner v. Armstrong et al., 93 Ohio St., 443, has discussed and defined this right.
An action to collect an unpaid subscription to capital stock of a corporation is a suit at law to *416recover a money judgment. (Smith, Recr., v. Johnson et al., 57 Ohio St., 486.)
“A court of equity has no jurisdiction, on the ground of avoiding a multiplicity of actions at law, of an action against a corporation which has been adjudicated a bankrupt, to enforce collection of unpaid subscriptions by stockholders of such corporation, as the liability of each stockholder presents a separate controversy unconnected with that of any other.” Kelley, Trustee, v. Gill, 62 L. Ed., 185 (245 U. S., 116). See also Hale v. Allinson, 188 U. S., 56.
The cross-petition upon which appeal is sought does not raise a chancery. question, and the court is therefore without jurisdiction.
The motion to dismiss the appeal is granted.

Motion to dismiss appeal granted.

Jones, P. J., and Hamilton,-J., concur.
Wilson, J., not participating.