Texas Supreme Court June 17, 1901, No. 1013. (Aransas Pass Harbor Co. v. Manning)

GAINES, Chief Justice.

This case comes to us upon certified questions. The certificate is as follows:

“The suit was brought by one L. H. Manning, who alleged that he was the owner of half the issued shares of the capital stock of the Ocean View Hotel Company, a corporation chartered on December 3, 1889, under the laws of Texas, for the sole purpose of establishing and maintaining a hotel or