Case ID: mo_93/html/0197-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Brace, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Garesché, Appellant, v. Lewis, Administrator.
    
    1. Administration: limitations : exhibition op demands. Under the statute, unmatured demands running to certain maturity are barred, unless they are exhibited to the administrator within two years after the publication of notice of the grant of letters,
    3. -: corporations : stockholders. The claim of a creditor ' of a corporation against a stockholder for unpaid stock matures on dissolution of the corporation, and must be exhibited within two years.
    8. --: -:--. The liability of a stockholder to a creditor of the corporation for unpaid stock becomes fixed by the insolvency and dissolution of the corporation, and then becomes a primary liability.
    
    
      Appeal from St. Lords Court of Appeals.
    
    ÁEEIBMED.
    
      Smith & Harrison and A. B. Taylor for appellant.
    
      G. A. Finkelnburg and G. L>. Bantz for respondent.
    
      
       These syllabi are taken from 15 Mo. App. 565.
    
   Brace, J.

This case is before us on appeal from the judgment of the St. Louis Court of Appeals, affirming the judgment of the St. Louis circuit court, and, after a careful consideration of the views urged by counsel for appellant, we are of opinion that tbe doctrine asserted by the court of appeals is correct, and tbe judgment of said court is affirmed on tbe grounds and for tbe reasons stated in tbe opinion of said court. 15 Mo. App. 565.

All concur, except Judge Sherwood, not sitting.