Hawes v. Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co.

This is a bill in equity under the St. of 1862, c. 218, to charge certain persons as members or stockholders of a manufacturing corporation.

It has already been decided, that the corporation in question was a manufacturing corporation, within the scope of the statute ; that it had been duly organized so as to be capable of contracting debts; that the individual defendants, at least if they held the whole of the stock in common and undivided, were liable for those debts ; and that the case should be referred to a master to ascertain the amount of the liability of each; and the question of the…