Legal Opinion
Mansur v. Pratt
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided January 15, 1869PublishedCited by 7 opinions
Writ of entry by Alvah Mansur, Joseph Mansur, Ellen E. Tebbetts and Lewis B. Tebbetts, her husband, to recover land devised to the three first named demandants as tenants in common by their father. The tenant claimed under an execution levied on the demanded premises on May 23,1857. The case was heard on agreed facts which are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtHoar, J.
The decision of this case depends upon the construction to be given to § 34 of the Rev. Sts. c. 38, which is as follows:
“ No persons holding stock in any manufacturing company, as executors, administrators, guardians or trustees, and no persons holding such stock as collateral security, shall be personally subject to any liabilities as stockholders of such company; jut the person pledging such stock shall be considered as holding the same, and shall be liable as a stockholder accordingly, and the estates and funds in the hands of such executors, administrators, guardians and trustees, shall…
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