Security Trust Co. v. Dodd, Mead & Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
CERTIFICATE FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT. This was an action originally instituted in the district court for the second judicial district of Minnesota, by the Security Trust Company, as assignee of the D. D. Merrill Company, a corporation organized under the laws of Minnesota, against the firm of Dodd, Mead & Company, a partnership resident in New York, to recover the value of certain stereotyped and electrotyped plates for printing books, upon…
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CERTIFICATE FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT. This was an action originally instituted in the district court for the second judicial district of Minnesota, by the Security Trust Company, as assignee of the D. D. Merrill Company, a corporation organized under the laws of Minnesota, against the firm of Dodd, Mead & Company, a partnership resident in New York, to recover the value of certain stereotyped and electrotyped plates for printing books, upon the ground that the defendants had unlawfully converted the same to their own use. The suit was duly ■ removed from the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brown
This case raises the question whether an assignee of an insolvent Minnesota corporation can- maintain an action in the courts of Minnesota for the conversion of property formerly belonging to the insolvent corporation, which certain New York creditors had attached in Massachusetts, and sold upon execution against such corporation. The question was also raised upon the argument how far an assignment, executed in Minnesota, pursuant to the general assignment law of that State, by a corporation there resident, is available' to pass personal property situated in Massachusetts as against parties…
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