Ewing v. King
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed in this court October 14, 1895. The bill alleged that the plaintiff, a resident of Chattanooga, Tennessee, was in the year 1891 appointed by the United States Circuit Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee, receiver of the Cardiff Coal and Iron Company, a corporation duly organized under the laws of Tennessee; that he was duly qualified as such receiver, and had ever since held that office; that among the assets which came into the hands and…
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Bill in equity, filed in this court October 14, 1895. The bill alleged that the plaintiff, a resident of Chattanooga, Tennessee, was in the year 1891 appointed by the United States Circuit Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee, receiver of the Cardiff Coal and Iron Company, a corporation duly organized under the laws of Tennessee; that he was duly qualified as such receiver, and had ever since held that office; that among the assets which came into the hands and ownership of the plaintiff as such receiver was a book account for $1,000, and two notes, each for $4,275, dated April 24,…
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, J.
This bill is brought by the receiver of a Tennessee corporation. It fails to show whether the nature of the receivership is such as to give him a title to the notes- and account on which his claim is founded, and to enable him to sue upon them in his own name. See Amy v. Manning, 149 Mass. 487; Wilson v. Welch, 157 Mass. 77; Buswell v. Order of the Iron Hall, 161 Mass. 224; Fort Payne Coal & Iron Co. v. Webster, 163 Mass. 134; Booth v. Clark, 17 How. 322; Yeager v. Wallace, 44 Penn. St. 294. From the statement that the notes and account were “ among the assets which came into the hands and…
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