Case Name: The President, Managers, and Company of the Rockville and Washington Turnpike-Road v. George P. Maxwell
Court: United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1824-04
Citations: 2 Cranch 451
Docket Number: 
Parties: The President, Managers, and Company of the Rockville and Washington Turnpike-Road v. George P. Maxwell.
Judges: 
Reporter: Reports of cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia (District of Columbia - reported by Mackey)
Volume: 2
Pages: 451–451

Head Matter:
The President, Managers, and Company of the Rockville and Washington Turnpike-Road v. George P. Maxwell.
The Rockville and Washington Turnpike Company may maintain an action against a stockholder for the amount of his subscription, and are not obliged to resort to a sale of his shares.

Opinion:
This was a case like the preceding case, and the Court (nem. con.) decided that the plaintiff was not confined to the remedy by a sale of the shares of a delinquent stockholder, but had a substantive cause of action against him for the subscription money ; and that a subscriber could not discharge himself from his obligation by an abandonment of his shares.