Rule 2158.Effect of judgment against association.

However the association was brought into the case, a judgment against it reaches its property. The judgment supports execution upon the property of the association whether the association was sued in its own name or in the name of a trustee ad litem, and whether it was sued alone or together with a member of the association or another person.

The rule speaks to the association’s property. Rule 2155 adds that no trustee ad litem and no individual member is liable for a money judgment against the association as such. Rule 2153(c) lets a plaintiff join members in their individual capacity to enforce any individual liability they have.

Rule 2132 draws the partnership line differently: there, a judgment against a firm sued in its firm name only supports execution on partnership property only, while one against partners sued by name can reach a named partner’s own property.