Sharp v. Hall

The statement of the case as made by ap-pellees is adopted:

“The appellee Dewey Hall brought suit No. 8430 in the Ninety-Third district court of Hidalgo county to recover for services rendered under a certain contract with the Planters’ Gin Company and H. R. Sharp, defendants therein and in which other defQnd-ants were joined because of their secondary liability as officers and stockholders of the defendant Planters’ Gin Company. Among other defendants, M. L. Paden, here in question, was sued as either a stockholder or a director of the corporation which had become defunct. Issue was joined in…