Menown v. Crawford

This is a proceeding by motion under the statute against the defendant as a stockholder of the Wardwell Manufacturing Company; and the question which we have to consider will have to turn upon the ruling just made in another case against a stockholder of the same company. Franklin v. Menown, ante, p. 570. The principles there laid down, following the recent decision of this court in Lionberger v. Broadway Savings Bank, ante, p. 499, will prevent the plaintiff from maintaining this motion. By the assignment made by the corporation on December 4, 1878, to Baepler, the right to collect unpaid…