Garling v. Baechtel
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Washington County. This suit was brought by the appellees under the provisions of sec. 52 of Art. 26 of the Code, on a bond for §500 issued to them by the Antietam Manufacturing Company of Washington County, to recover of the appellant individually as a stockholder of the company, the amount of said bond.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court for Washington County. This suit was brought by the appellees under the provisions of sec. 52 of Art. 26 of the Code, on a bond for §500 issued to them by the Antietam Manufacturing Company of Washington County, to recover of the appellant individually as a stockholder of the company, the amount of said bond. The defendant pleaded specially, that before the issuing of the writ in this cause, he, with all the other stockholders of the said Antietam Manufacturing Company, was sued in the Circuit Court for Washington county, as a Court of Equity, by a certain Henry…
1Opinion of the CourtRobinson, J.
This suit is brought under the provisions of Art. 26, sec. 52 of the Code, to recover of the appellant individually as a stockholder of the Antietam Manufacturing Company, a debt due to the appellees by said company.
The company was organized under Art. 26 of the Code, and by the articles of association the capital stock was fixed at 1500 shares of the par value of $100 per share, of which, however, but 960 shares were taken.
We have heretofore decided that in regard to companies of this character, where the capital stock was fixed at a certain number of shares of a certain value per share, no…
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