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PITTSBURG STEEL CO. v. BALTIMORE EQ. SOC.

No. 103.

226 U.S. 455 (1913)

33 S.Ct. 167

57 L.Ed. 297

PITTSBURG STEEL COMPANY v. BALTIMORE EQUITABLE SOCIETY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 6, 1913.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Edgar Allan Poe, with whom Mr. J. Kemp Bartlett, Mr. L.B. Keene Claggett and Mr. R. Howard Bland were on the brief, for plaintiff in error.

Mr. Wilton Snowden, Jr., and Mr. Vernon Cook for defendant in error.

MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an action brought by the plaintiff in error as a creditor of the South Baltimore Steel Car and Foundry Company to recover its claim from the defendant, a holder of stock in that company the subscription for which had not been fully paid. The action was begun on February 26, 1908, and at that date it could be maintained. But in April a statute was enacted (Act of April 6, 1908, c. 305,

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