Musgrave v. Morrison
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Court of Common Pleas. The case is stated in the opinion of the Court. Exception.—The plaintiffs at the trial offered three' prayers and the defendant ten, all of which are omitted as not necessary for the proper understanding of the questions decided hy this Court. The Court helow (Brown, J.,) granted the plaintiffs’ prayers and refused all those offered by the defendant except the tenth.
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Appeal from the Court of Common Pleas. The case is stated in the opinion of the Court. Exception.—The plaintiffs at the trial offered three' prayers and the defendant ten, all of which are omitted as not necessary for the proper understanding of the questions decided hy this Court. The Court helow (Brown, J.,) granted the plaintiffs’ prayers and refused all those offered by the defendant except the tenth. The defendant excepted and the verdict and judgment, being rendered against him he appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtRobinson, J.
This suit is brought by the appellees, receivers of the Chesapeake Mutual Land and Building Association, to recover the appellant’s subscription to its capital stock.
The company was chartered for the purpose of buying, selling and improving land, and also for the purposes of a Homestead Building Association.
Its capital was fixed at eight hundred thousand dollars, divided into two hundred shares of the par value of four hundred dollars each.
In April, 1869, the company organized, and began the prosecution of the business for which it was chartered, and continued to prosecute the same until…
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