Dooley v. Hadden
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEALS FROM THE CIRCUIT' COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT. In July, 1895, Harold F. Hádden and James E.' S. Hadden brought an action in the New York Supreme Court for the city and county of New York, against the Natchaug Silk Company, Michael F.. Dooley, personally and as receiver of the First National Bank of Willimantic, John A. Pangburn, and others, including William I. Buttling, sheriff of Kings County.
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APPEALS FROM THE CIRCUIT' COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT. In July, 1895, Harold F. Hádden and James E.' S. Hadden brought an action in the New York Supreme Court for the city and county of New York, against the Natchaug Silk Company, Michael F.. Dooley, personally and as receiver of the First National Bank of Willimantic, John A. Pangburn, and others, including William I. Buttling, sheriff of Kings County. The complaint alleged certain fraudulent and collusive proceedings between the .Natchaug Silk Company, Dooley, receiver of the First National Bank of Willimantic, and John A.…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Shirks
Whether Chaffee, as president and general manager of the silk company, had authority to sell a large portion of the personal property of the company to one of its creditors in part payment of its debt, and whether his action, if regarded as unauthorized, was ratified by the directors of the company, were questions much discussed in the.courts below, and which occupy a large part of the briefs of counsel filed in this court, but which, in the view that we take of the case, need not be considered by us.
In both the Circuit Court and the Circuit Court of Appeals it was held, upon all the facts,…
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