Legal Opinion
Awotin v. Atlas Exchange Nat. Bank of Chicago
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided April 29, 1935No. 661PublishedCited by 78 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Stone
This case comes here on certiorari to review a determination of the Appellate Court, First District, of the State of Illinois, that respondent, a national banking association, has incurred no liability in consequence of the failure to perform its contract with the petitioner, declared by the court to be invalid because in violation of R. S. § 5136, as amended February 25, 1927, c. 191, § 2, 44 Stat. 1224, 1226.
On November 1, 1929, petitioner purchased of respondent at par thirty-five $1,000 Mortgage Bonds of the First National Company Collateral Trust. Contemporaneously with the purchase, and…
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