Sec. 7. Whenever a majority in value of the capital stock of any such corporation existing on March 3, 1909, shall have been assigned and turned over to the directors or trustees, as provided for in sections 5 and 6 of this chapter, the directors or trustees of such corporation may, if they see fit, cause to be filed in the circuit court or superior court, if any, of the county where the institution is located the petition of said institution, making defendant thereto any known stockholder or stockholders, as shown by the stock register of the corporation, or the stockholder's administrator and heirs (if the stockholder is dead) including the surviving spouse and any unknown heirs of such stockholder, and praying the court to appoint three (3) disinterested persons to estimate and appraise the fair cash value of the stock held by such persons. If it appear by affidavit that the name or residence of any stockholder or defendant is unknown or that the person is a nonresident of the state of Indiana, or that the person is believed to be dead and that the names of the person's surviving spouse and heirs or either are unknown, the clerk, by order of the court, shall cause a notice of the pendency of such action and the term at which the same will stand for trial to be published for three (3) weeks successively in some newspaper of general circulation printed in the English language and published in said county. And the value of such shares having been so appraised by said commissioners, by a vote of a majority thereof, when confirmed by the court, shall be final and conclusive upon all parties. And thereupon said corporation shall be decreed to be the purchaser and owner of such shares as against all parties served with notice or against whom or the unknown surviving spouse or heirs of whom publication was made as provided in this section, at and for the value of their respective shares as fixed by such appraisement; and said directors or trustees shall thereupon cause entry of such purchase and ownership to be noted upon the stock register of the corporation, and shall pay to the respective owners of such stock the value thereof as fixed by said appraisement whenever the owners shall present the certificate for such shares owned and assign the same to such corporation or the directors or trustees thereof.

Formerly: Acts 1909, c.52, s.6. As amended by P.L.34-1987, SEC.348.