Fry v. Baltimore Hotel Co.

THOMPSON (R. L.), J., pro tem.

This is an appeal by the defendant Colopy from a judgment for damages based upon a stockholder’s liability for the debts of a corporation for breach of contract.

Two reasons are assigned by the defendant upon which he relies for a reversal of the judgment. First, that the agreement upon which the judgment is founded was a mere renewal of a former lease, for the breach of which a stockholder’s liability was barred by the limitations prescribed in section 359 of the Code of Civil Procedure. Second, that a former judgment against the corporation, which furnished the…