Case Name: PITTSBURG FORGE AND IRON COMPANY vs. SAFE DEPOSIT AND TRUST COMPANY OF BALTIMORE and CHARLES L. HALL, Executors
Court: Court of Appeals of Maryland
Jurisdiction: Maryland
Decision Date: 1911-11-17
Citations: 116 Md. 697
Docket Number: 
Parties: PITTSBURG FORGE AND IRON COMPANY vs. SAFE DEPOSIT AND TRUST COMPANY OF BALTIMORE and CHARLES L. HALL, Executors.
Judges: 
Reporter: Maryland Reports
Volume: 116
Pages: 697–697

Head Matter:
PITTSBURG FORGE AND IRON COMPANY vs. SAFE DEPOSIT AND TRUST COMPANY OF BALTIMORE and CHARLES L. HALL, Executors.
Corporations; liability of stockholders; statute effecting remedy ; retroactive effect; Act of 1908, Ch. 305, constitutional.
Chapter 305 of the Acts of 1908, which abated pending actions at law to enforce a stockholder’s liability to the creditors of a corporation, and substituted a creditor’s bill in equity, is constitutional.
Decided November 17, 1911.
Appeal from the Superior Court of Baltimore City (Gorter, J.).
The cause was submitted on briefs to Boyd, C. J., Bbiscoe, Pearce, Burke, Thomas, Pattison, Urner and Stockbridge, JJ.
Wm. H. Surratt, filed a brief for the appellant.
Alexander Preston, filed a brief for the appellee.

Opinion:
Stockbridge, J.,
delivered the opinion of the Court, affirming the judgment of the lower Court, with costs.