Bishop v. Brainerd
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Scitus Facias, brought against the defendant as debtor of the New York and Boston Railroad Company. The original claim of the plaintiff against the railroad company consisted of two notes and an account, and accrued after the 1st day of January, 1855, and the plaintiff had obtained a judgment upon the claim, in the superior court of this state, at its term in Middlesex county in February, 1857, and had brought an action of debt on this judgment, and factorized the present…
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Scitus Facias, brought against the defendant as debtor of the New York and Boston Railroad Company. The original claim of the plaintiff against the railroad company consisted of two notes and an account, and accrued after the 1st day of January, 1855, and the plaintiff had obtained a judgment upon the claim, in the superior court of this state, at its term in Middlesex county in February, 1857, and had brought an action of debt on this judgment, and factorized the present defendant. The defendant was an original subscriber to the capital stock of the corporation, and had never paid his…
1Opinion of the CourtStorks, C. J.
The judgment on which the present proceeding by writ of scire-facias is foundéd, was, by the concession of both the parties in this case, rendered against the New York and Boston Railroad Company, which was the corporation chartered by the legislature of the state of Connecticut in 1846, and the question is, whether the defendant, when the. copy of the writ, in the suit in which that judgment was rendered, was left with him in service, was indebted to that corporation,. And it is also conceded that he was then so indebted, by virtue of his subscription to the original stock of that…
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