Stanley v. Stanley
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
This was an action of trespass, alleging, that the defendant took 3000 pounds of wool, the property of the plaintiff, and converted the same to his own use on January 5, 1842. The defendant pleaded the general issue, and filed a brief statement setting forth that he was sheriff of the county of Franklin; that Joseph Covill was his deputy ; that Covill had an execution for service recovered by the Freeman’s Bank against the Readfield Cotton & Woolen Manufacturing Company ;…
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This was an action of trespass, alleging, that the defendant took 3000 pounds of wool, the property of the plaintiff, and converted the same to his own use on January 5, 1842. The defendant pleaded the general issue, and filed a brief statement setting forth that he was sheriff of the county of Franklin; that Joseph Covill was his deputy ; that Covill had an execution for service recovered by the Freeman’s Bank against the Readfield Cotton & Woolen Manufacturing Company ; that the company having no property or estate, Covill, after due notice to the plaintiff, took the wool named in the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was drawn up by
Whitman C. J.
— The first question to be considered is, whether the plaintiff’s situation was such as to subject him to the operation of the statute of 1839, c. 400. As the act creating the corporation, to which the credit was given, was passed in 1833, it is contended, that it was not competent for the legislature, afterwards, to enact that the individual stockholders in it, should be made liable for its debts. But this debt was incurred after the passage of the act of 1839; and that act did not provide for any such liability, except for debts incurred…
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