46 Md. 519 | Md. | 1877
delivered the opinion of the Court.
As the cause of action in this case arose before the appointment of the receiver, it is necessary, in order to maintain the action in his name, that it should he made to appear he has had conferred upon him the power and authority to sue.
That such power and authority has been conferred we think is clear. The terms of the decree, under which he
The present receiver is not the person named as such in the original decree ; but, on the refusal of the first receiver to act, he was duly appointed in his place and stead. Being substituted for him, he was necessarily clothed with the same authority and required to perform the same duties. Were it otherwise, he could not be said to have been appointed to act in his place and stead.
But apart from this, the Act of 1868, ch. 471, sec. 195, confers ample authority to maintain this action. It provides that, “ whenever a receiver of the property or effects of a corporation shall be appointed before the dissolution or afterwards, new suits may be brought and carried on by any such receivers, either in their own names and capacities as such receivers or in the names of the corporation for which they shall have been appointed ; but no new suit shall be brought in the name of a corporation after it
When the appointment, therefore, of this appellant as receiver was established by the exhibition of the order of the Circuit Court of Baltimore City, we think his right to maintain this action was sufficiently shown.
The authorities cited by the appellant fully support the doctrine that, where a statute gives to the receiver a. right to sue, there is no necessity to show special authority from the Court appointing him. So that, even if the order in this case was silent as to the right to maintain this action, the authority to do so is ample under the Act of Assembly.
As a consequence, we think the Court erred in the view expressed in the bill of exceptions, and the judgment will be reversed.
Judgment reversed, and a new trial ordered.