Hagerstown Furniture Co. v. Baker

These two appeals are presented on separate records which, although incomplete and confused, are together sufficient for a determination of the questions involved without putting the parties to the expense of a writ of diminution. The present controversy grows out of a decree appointing receivers for the Hagerstown Furniture Company, a corporation engaged in the manufacture and sale of furniture at Hagerstown. The company’s board of directors were Henry F. Wingert, William Wingert, Lewis P. Wingert, John Gr. Ernst, and Solomon Baker; and, in the same order in which their names are given, the…