Guschnor v. Keith

This suit was brought by Henry Guschnor, who claims to be a creditor of the Commercial Insurance Company of Chicago, against Osborn R. Keith, a stockholder in said company, to enforce the personal liability imposed by the sixteenth section of the act to incorporate and govern fire insur*anee companies doing business in the State of Illinois, approved March 11, 1869. A general demurrer to the declaration being sustained, judgment was rendered in favor of the defendant for costs. We think the declaration fails to show that the plaintiff is a creditor of the insurance company, and consequently,…