Donnelly v. Mulhall

This is an action by a creditor of the Butchers and Drovers’ Bank, against a stockholder of the corporation, brought under the statute (Bev. Stats., sect. 745), which permits suits to be brought against the stockholders where any company formed under the act concerning corporations has dissolved, leaving debts unpaid. The petition was filed on November 20, 1880.

Defendant alleges in his answer that, on January 11, 1881, and nunc pro tunc as of December 20, 1880, judgment was rendered in the St. Louis Circuit Court against said bank in favor of one Marks, for $7,981, on which judgment execution…