Legal Opinion

Western National Bank v. Lawrence

Michigan Supreme Court

Decided July 18, 1898PublishedCited by 17 opinions

Error to Kent; Grove, J. Assumpsit by the Western National Bank of New York against John S. Lawrence to enforce the individual liability of defendant as a stockholder in a Kansas corporation. From a judgment for defendant on demurrer to the declaration, plaintiff brings error.

1Opinion of the CourtLong, J.

The declaration in this cause states that the plaintiff is a corporation under the national banking act, having its place of business in the city of New York, and, as such corporation, loaned the Western Farm Mortgage Trust Company, a Kansas corporation, $20,000, and on the 2d day of July, 1892, obtained a judgment against the Kansas corporation for $22,911.35, on which there has been issued an execution which has been returned unsatisfied, and since that time the plaintiff has credited on said judgment $7,094.60, the balance being wholly unpaid; that the Western Farm Mortgage Trust Company…

2Cases cited14 opinions

  1. Huntington v. AttrillSupreme Court of the United States · 1892
  2. Flash v. ConnSupreme Court of the United States · 1883
  3. Marshall v. . ShermanNew York Court of Appeals · 1895
  4. First National Bank v. Gustin Minerva Consolidated Mining Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1890
  5. Guerney v. MooreSupreme Court of Missouri · 1895

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3Cited by17 opinions

  1. Nickels v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1925
  2. Howarth v. LombardMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1900
  3. Bell v. FarwellIllinois Supreme Court · 1898
  4. Foster v. RowMichigan Supreme Court · 1899
  5. Colton v. MayerCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1900

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