Webb v. Baltimore & Eastern Shore Railroad

Alvey, O. J.,

delivered the opinion of the Court.

This action was brought to recover of the defendant for certain stock subscribed in the plaintiff company. The declaration contains several of the common indebitatus counts, but the fifth count is special, and it alleges that the defendant subscribed for and agreed to take twenty shares of the capital stock of the plaintiff company, and to pay $1000 therefor, on the completion of *94the railroad of the company to the town of Vienna, Maryland; and that, although the said railroad has long since been completed to the said town of Vienna, and that the…