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Jones v. Bank of Leadville

Supreme Court of Colorado

Decided October 15, 1887PublishedCited by 34 opinions

Error to District Court, Lake County. On the 25th day of July, 1883, the defendant in error was, and had been, a bank doing a general banking business in the city of Leadville, and on that date presented to the Hon. L. M. Goddard, judge of the fifth judicial district of Colorado, its petition in the words and figures following: “In the matter of the application of the Bank of Lead-ville to the court to dissolve its corporate existence, close up the business thereof, and for…

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Error to District Court, Lake County. On the 25th day of July, 1883, the defendant in error was, and had been, a bank doing a general banking business in the city of Leadville, and on that date presented to the Hon. L. M. Goddard, judge of the fifth judicial district of Colorado, its petition in the words and figures following: “In the matter of the application of the Bank of Lead-ville to the court to dissolve its corporate existence, close up the business thereof, and for the appointment of a receiver. “ To the Hon. L. M. Qodclard, Judge of the District Court: “The petition of the Bank of…

1Opinion of the Court

Macon, C.

Of the eleven assignments of error, four challenge the judgment of the district court in dissolving the attachment, and seven the validity of the appointment of the receiver. Plaintiff in error contends that such appointment was void, and no control over the property of defendant ever vested in the receiver, and that the court in its action on the motion to dissolve the attachment went solely upon the ground that George W. Trimble was a legal receiver and that through him the *472property of the defendant bank was in custodia legis; while defendant in error as strenuously claims that the…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. La Société Française D'Epargnes et de Prévoyance Mutuelle v. Dist. Court of the Fifteenth Judicial Dist.California Supreme Court · 1879
  2. New Orleans, Jackson, & Great Northern Railroad v. HarrisMississippi Supreme Court · 1854
  3. Hardy v. McClellanMississippi Supreme Court · 1876
  4. Kimball v. GoodburnMichigan Supreme Court · 1875
  5. Davis v. Flagstaff Silver Mining Co.Utah Supreme Court · 1880

3Cited by34 opinions

  1. Wallace v. Pierce-Wallace Publishing Co.Supreme Court of Iowa · 1897
  2. District No. 21 United Mine Workers of America v. BourlandSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1925
  3. Holmquist v. GilbertSupreme Court of Colorado · 1907
  4. Venner v. Denver Union Water Co.Supreme Court of Colorado · 1907
  5. Fishel v. GoddardSupreme Court of Colorado · 1902

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