Urner v. Sollenberger
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Baltimore City Court (Phelps, J.) The prospectus of the Roanoke Development Company, dated October, 1890, announced that the company proposed “to purchase 1,300 acres of land lying adjacent to the corporate limits of Roanoke and directly west of the centre of the town. The property has a frontage of about two and a-half miles on the Roanoke River, and comprises some 300 or 400 acres of fine bottom lands, suitable for business and manufacturing.purposes.
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Appeal from the Baltimore City Court (Phelps, J.) The prospectus of the Roanoke Development Company, dated October, 1890, announced that the company proposed “to purchase 1,300 acres of land lying adjacent to the corporate limits of Roanoke and directly west of the centre of the town. The property has a frontage of about two and a-half miles on the Roanoke River, and comprises some 300 or 400 acres of fine bottom lands, suitable for business and manufacturing.purposes. The rest of the property is, for the most part, high table-land and admirably adapted for town purposes. The capital of the…
1Opinion of the CourtMcSherry, C. J.
This is a suit by the trustee of an insolvent foreign corporation to recover from a stockholder the unpaid balance due- on his subscription to the capital stock. The Roanoke Development Company of Virginia, after a brief career, made an assignment to the appellee for the benefit of its creditors. The company was one of the many ephemeral and speculative concerns, which, a few years ago, suddenly sprang into existence throughout portions of Virginia and Maryland, and perhaps elsewhere, and deluded the credulous and confiding by the promise of fabulous gains, and frequently misled the…
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