Lyons v. Orange, Alexandria & Manassas Railroad
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Court of Common Pleas. This was an attachment on warrant, by the appellant against the appellee, a corporation not chartered by the State of Maryland, to recover an indebtedness originally due to him by the Manassas Gap Railroad Company, and for which it was claimed the appellee had become responsible. The attachment was dissolved by bond, and the appellee appeared and pleaded to the short note.
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Appeal from the Court of Common Pleas. This was an attachment on warrant, by the appellant against the appellee, a corporation not chartered by the State of Maryland, to recover an indebtedness originally due to him by the Manassas Gap Railroad Company, and for which it was claimed the appellee had become responsible. The attachment was dissolved by bond, and the appellee appeared and pleaded to the short note. Errors in pleading on both sides were waived, and it was agreed that the plaintiff or defendant might, respectively, rely on any matter of claim or defence connected with the liability…
1Opinion of the CourtRobinson, J.
This was an attachment on warrant by the appellant against the appellee, to recover an indebtedness originally due to him by the Manassas Gap Railroad Company, and which it was claimed the appellee had assumed or become liable to pay.
It appears that negotiations were pending in regard to the transfer of the charter, franchises and property of the Manassas Gap Company to the appellee, and therefore to enable the parties to make this transfer, and for the purpose also of conferring other powers and privileges upon the corporation to be formed by the consolidation of these companies, the…
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