This section is from the book "Popular Law Library Vol8 Partnership, Private Corporations, Public Corporations", by Albert H. Putney. Also available from Amazon: Popular Law-Dictionary.
Section 68. Unless made so by statute, the property of the individual inhabitants of a municipal corporation, is not liable for the debts or obligations of the corporation, although in the New England States, the estate of any inhabitant is liable to be taken on execution to satisfy a judgment against the municipality.14
13 City of Chicago vs. Hasley,
25 III., 485. 14 Lyon vs. Elizabeth, 43 N. J. L., 158; Merriwether vs. Garrett, 102 U. S., 472; Hill vs. Boston, 122 Mass., 344.
 
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