Basshor v. Dressel
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Superior Court of Baltimore City. This was an action brought by the appellants, creditors of a corporation known as “The Baltimore Chrome Mining and Manufacturing Company,” against the appellee, a stockholder therein, to charge him for the debt due by the company under the provisions of section 52 of Article 26 of the Code of Public General Laws. Judgment was rendered for the defendant and the plaintiffs appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtMiller, J.
This is another case where creditors of a corporation are seeking to enforce as against a stockholder, the personal liability imposed by section 52 of Article 26 of the Code. None of the questions determined in Norris vs. Johnson, and Norris vs. Wrenschall, arise here. The case was concluded in the Court below by an instruction to the jury that there w'as no legal evidence of the incorporation of the company of which the defendant is sought to be charged as a stockholder, and the plaintiffs are not, therefore, entitled to recover in this action, and whether this instruction be correct is the…
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