Schall v. Camors
Supreme Court of the United States
CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT. The case is stated in the opinion. The nature of an indebtedness incurred by individual members of a firm for frauds perpetrated by them in firm transactions is authoritatively established in England by the case oí Ex parte Adamson; In re Collie, L. R. 8 Ch. Div. 807. It is also well established in England that proof can be made as upon an implied contract in cases where an individual member of the firm is…
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CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT. The case is stated in the opinion. The nature of an indebtedness incurred by individual members of a firm for frauds perpetrated by them in firm transactions is authoritatively established in England by the case oí Ex parte Adamson; In re Collie, L. R. 8 Ch. Div. 807. It is also well established in England that proof can be made as upon an implied contract in cases where an individual member of the firm is implicated in the misappropriation of moneys by the firm. In re J. & H. Davison; Ex parte Chandler, 13 Q. B. D. 50. A…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Pitney
The transactions out of which this controversy arose took place in the years 1913 and 1914. At that time Le-More and Carriere carried on business as partners in the cities of New Orleans, Louisiana, and Mobile, Alabama-. Afterwards, and in the month of May, 1914, upon an involuntary petition in bankruptcy, the firm and the individual members thereof were adjudged bankrupts in the United States District Court for the,Eastern District of Louisiana, New Orleans Division, and the present respondents were elected and qualified as trustees of both the partnership and the individual estates. The…
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