Legal Opinion
Brown v. O'KEEFE
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 29, 1937No. 575PublishedCited by 157 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Cardozo
In a suit for the enforcement' of the personal liability imposed by the statute then in force upon shareholders in national banks, petitioner, the defendant in the suit, disclaimed liability, first, upon the ground that before the assessment of the shareholders his ownership of the shares was divested by the filing of a bankruptcy petition and the appointment of a trustee thereunder, and, second, upon the ground that if ownership continued, liability was extinguished by virtue of a discharge in bankruptcy. Whether the defense should have prevailed is now to be determined.
Petitioner was…
2Cases cited38 opinions
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- Richmond v. IronsSupreme Court of the United States · 1887
- Central Trust Co. of Ill. v. Chicago Auditorium Assn.Supreme Court of the United States · 1916
- Crawford v. BurkeSupreme Court of the United States · 1904
- Bernheimer v. ConverseSupreme Court of the United States · 1907
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3Cited by157 opinions
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- David A. Morlan v. Universal Guaranty Life Insurance CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2002
- State v. JonesSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1981
- Steelman v. All Continent Corp.Supreme Court of the United States · 1937
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