A corporation is not dissolved by the nonuse or assignment to others, in whole or in part, of its powers, franchises, and privileges, unless all the corporate property has been appropriated to the payment of its debts; and any creditor, for the creditor and other creditors, whether that creditor has recovered judgment or not, or any stockholder for that stockholder and other stockholders, may file a bill under this chapter, to attach the corporate property, and have such property applied to the payment of the debts of the corporation, and any surplus divided among the stockholders.
Code 1858, § 3431 (deriv. Acts 1851-1852, ch. 172); Shan., § 5187; Code 1932, § 9358; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 23-2803.
Structure 2021 Tennessee Code
Title 29 - Remedies and Special Proceedings
Chapter 35 - Usurpation or Forfeiture of Office or Franchise — Corporate Misdeeds
§ 29-35-101. Grounds for Action
§ 29-35-102. Corporate Officers — Trustees
§ 29-35-103. Attachment of Corporate Property After Nonuse or Assignment of Franchise
§ 29-35-104. Naming Proper Claimant to Office — Adjudication of Rights
§ 29-35-105. Judgment for Claimant to Office
§ 29-35-106. Damages for Usurpation of Office
§ 29-35-107. Adjudication Among Several Claimants to Office
§ 29-35-108. Election Contests
§ 29-35-109. Officers Entitled to Bring Suit
§ 29-35-110. Suit on Relation of Private Individual
§ 29-35-111. Bill in Equity — Venue
§ 29-35-112. Contents of Bill — Conduct of Suit
§ 29-35-113. Extraordinary Process
§ 29-35-114. Answer — Evidence in Criminal Actions
§ 29-35-116. Judgment of Exclusion From Office or Franchise
§ 29-35-117. Judgment of Dissolution — Escheat of Corporate Property
§ 29-35-118. Receiver for Corporation in Dissolution
§ 29-35-119. Costs Paid by State