Weaver v. Trustees of the Wabash & Erie Canal

— Suit by the Trustees of the Wabash and Erie Canal against Weaver, the appellant, to recover assess-*113merits on stock subscribed, by him in a co-partnership association, known as the “ Wabash and Erie Canal Company,” organized for the purpose of repairing and maintaining the Wabash and Erie Canal from Terre Haute to the Ohio state line, “as a permanent channel of transportation and inland commerce.”

The appellant demurred to the complaint, for the following causes:

“ 1. There is a defect of parties, in this, that the said Wabash and Erie Canal Company should have been made a party defendant to…