Scanlan v. Crawshaw

By an act of the General Assembly, approved Feb. 12, 1853, the Masonic Hall Association was incorporated. An amendatory act was passed Nov. 14, 1857, containing nothing material to the subject of the present controversy. On June 8, 1876, the plaintiff obtained a judgment against the corporation, in the St. Louis Circuit Court, for $11,769.05. An execution having been returned nulla bona, the plaintiff proceeded in due form, under Wagner’s Statutes, 291, sec. 13, to procure an order for execution against the appellant herein, as a stockholder in the corporation. On June 25, 1877, the court…