Doolittle v. Marsh
Nebraska Supreme Court
Error to the district court for Douglas county. The plaintiff in error obtained a judgment against the Omaha Horse Railway Company, for damages for personal injuries sustained by her while a passenger upon one of the cars of the company, caused, as alleged, by the negligence of the driver of the car.
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Error to the district court for Douglas county. The plaintiff in error obtained a judgment against the Omaha Horse Railway Company, for damages for personal injuries sustained by her while a passenger upon one of the cars of the company, caused, as alleged, by the negligence of the driver of the car. Railing to collect the judgment of the company, after the return of execution against the company, she brought her action against the defendant in error, a stockholder of the horse railway company, to enforce a supposed personal liability on his part, created by section 186 of the chapter of the…
1Opinion of the Court
Cobb, J.. I cannot agree with counsel for the defendant in error in the- first point made in his able argument, in which he contends that section 136 of the chapter of the General Statutes entitled “ Corporations,” does not apply to any corporation not created under general laws. I agree that its provisions are limited to corporations thereafter created, but that is the only limitation, and the only doubt is whether section 139 does not extend the same provision to all corporations without reference to the date, as the two sections combined certainly do, without regard to the method of their…
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