Rider v. Morrison
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from tire Court of Common Pleas. This suit was brought by the appellees, as receivers of the Franklin Land and Loan Company of Baltimore City, against the appellant.
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Appeal from tire Court of Common Pleas. This suit was brought by the appellees, as receivers of the Franklin Land and Loan Company of Baltimore City, against the appellant. The declaration contained five counts, to wit: for money lent by the Companj to the defendant; for money paid by the Company for the defendant, at his request; for money received by the defendant for the use of the plaintiffs; for money found to be due on accounts stated between them; and for that the defendant subscribed for and agreed to take ten shares of stock of the Franklin Land and Loan Company of Baltimore City,…
1Opinion of the CourtRobinson, J.
The appellant was the holder of ten shares of stock in the Franklin Land and Loan Company of the par value of $400 per share, upon which the weekly dues paid by him, and the dividends to which he was entitled, amounted to •$1715.30.
He was also the holder of shares in the Chesapeake Mutual Land and Building Association, upon which he had paid $1238.70.
On the 20th of July, 1874, the Franklin Company ■passed a resolution directing the sale of certain property •belonging to the Company, and authorizing the purchaser *442to pay two-thirds of the purchase-money in the stock of the Company.
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