Voight v. Dregge

But two questions arise in this case:

1. Can one be held personally liable for labor performed, while a stockholder, for a corporation organized under chapter 95, How. Stat., he having ceased to be a stocks holder before action brought?

*3242. If so, can action be maintained after judgment in justice’s court, and- execution returned unsatisfied?

As to the first of these questions, defendant’s counsel contend that the liability follows the stock into the hands of the purchaser, and that the former stockholder is released.

How. Stat. § 3557, provides:

“ The stockholders of eveiy company incorporated…