Potter v. Stevens Machine Co.

This is a bill in equity, filed May 5, 1876, against a corporation organized under the general laws of this Commonwealth, and against all the stockholders and members thereof, for the purpose of enforcing against the stockholders the payment of a judgment obtained by him against the corporation on three promissory notes.

*593The suit is brought under the provisions of the St. of 1862, c. 218, § 4, for the benefit of the plaintiff and such other creditors as may come in and become parties to the proceedings. It seeks to charge the stockholders, on the ground that the corporation incurred the debts,…