Converse v. Hamilton
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OP THE STATE OP WISCONSIN. The facts, which involve the recognition to be given, under the full faith and credit clause, of the Federal Constitution,in the courts of a State of a receiver appointed by the courts of another State and the right of such receiver to enforce double liability against the stockholders in the former State, are stated in the opinion.
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OP THE STATE OP WISCONSIN. The facts, which involve the recognition to be given, under the full faith and credit clause, of the Federal Constitution,in the courts of a State of a receiver appointed by the courts of another State and the right of such receiver to enforce double liability against the stockholders in the former State, are stated in the opinion. It was held by the Supreme Court of Minnesota that the manufacturing company was not exclusively a manufacturing or mechanical corporation, and hence the stockholders are liable. Merchants’ National Bank v.…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Van Devantee
These were actions at law, brought in the Circuit Court of Dane County, Wisconsin, by a receiver of an insolvent Minnesota corporation, the Minnesota Thresher Manu-' facturing Company, to enforce an asserted double liability of two of its stockholders. The facts stated in the complaints, which were substantially alike, were these: A judgment creditor, upon whose judgment an execution had been issued and returned nulla bona, commenced a suit against the company in the District Court of Washington County, Minnesota, for the sequestration of its property and effects and for the appointment of a…
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