Gilbert v. Southern Indiana Coal & Iron Co.

The appellee, the Southern Indiana Coal and Iron Company, recovered a judgment in the Vanderburgh Circuit Court against the Evansville Rolling Mill Company, a manufacturing corporation existing under the laws of this State, upon the endorsement of a promissory note. An execution having been issued upon the judgment, and returned unsatisfied, this action was brought by the appellee, against the appellants as stockholders of the *523rolling mill company, to recover the amount of the judgment against them personally.

Some of the defendants below appeared and filed demurrers to the complaint for want…