692

PROCEEDINGS AGAINST CORPORATIONS. [ART. 67.

Id s 212.
Service on
agents
45 Md 24

3 7. If any corporations or joint stock companies embraced in
the next preceding section, after any liability shall occur within this
State, or after any contract shall have been made by it with any
resident of this State, shall cease to have any agent in this State;
and no president, director, or manager of such corporation, or joint
stock company, or association, can be found in this State, then in
such case service of any writ or process issuing from the courts of
this State, on the person who was last the agent of such corporation
or joint stock company in this State, shall be deemed sufficient ser-

Service of copy
of process on
president, etc

vice, if a copy of such process be served on the president or
manager, or two directors of such corporation or joint stock com-

Affidavit

pany, wherever they may be found, and an affidavit of such service
be made before any person authorized by the laws of this State to
take the acknowledgments of deeds.

Id s. 213
Judgment by
default.

38. If any corporation whatever, upon which process has been
served as hereinbefore prescribed, shall fail to appear during the
term, or rule day for the return of process, to which such process
shall be returned, or by the second day of the succeeding term or
rule day for the return of process, judgment by default shall be en-
tered against such corporation, and the amount of the claim of the

Jury of in-
quiry, etc

plaintiff shall be ascertained by a jury of inquiry or otherwise, as
in other cases of judgment by default.

Id s 214
Bill against
debtors of cor-
porations
46 Md 238

30. When a judgment has been recovered against a corporation,
and an execution on such judgment returned nulla bona, the person
or body corporate entitled to such judgment may file a bill in equity
against all or any persons who may be, in any manner, indebted to
said corporation, either for the stock thereof or on any other account,
and if the court shall find such person or persons to be indebted to

Decree

said corporation a decree shall pass directing such person so found
to be indebted to bring the money into Court, to be distributed
ratably among the creditors of such corporation, in the same man-
ner that distribution is made on a creditor's bill; and any of the

Trial at law.

defendants to said bill may pray a trial at law of any issue of fact in
said case, which issue shall be sent to a Court of law for trial, and the
complainant may require, by said bill or by another bill, the officers

Bill of dis-
covery

of such corporation to discover, under oath, who are indebted to
said corporation, and the amount and consideration of such indebt-
edness, and for the purpose of such discovery, all or any of the
officers of said corporation may be made defendants, and any of the

Appeal.

parties in said causes shall be entitled to an appeal, as allowed in

Bill, where
filed

cases of equity; and the said bill may be filed in the Circuit Court
of any county in which any of the directors of such corporation
reside, or in the county in which said corporation last had its prin-
cipal office or place of business, or in the Circuit Court of Balti-
more City, if any of said directors there reside, or if said corpora-
tion last had in said city its principal office or place of business.

Id s. 215
Sufficient
description

40. It shall he sufficient in any suit, pleading, or process, either
at law or in equity, or before any justice of the peace, by or against