Hale v. Allinson
Supreme Court of the United States
CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT. This case comes hereby virtue of a writ of certiorari directed to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Third pircuit. It is a suit in equity brought by a foreign receiver, in the United States Circuit Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, to enforce the liability of stockholders, residing in Pennsylvania, of the Northwestern Guaranty Loan Company, a cornoration of Minnesota.
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CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT. This case comes hereby virtue of a writ of certiorari directed to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Third pircuit. It is a suit in equity brought by a foreign receiver, in the United States Circuit Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, to enforce the liability of stockholders, residing in Pennsylvania, of the Northwestern Guaranty Loan Company, a cornoration of Minnesota. Demurrers were filed, setting up, among other grounds, that the receiver appointed under proceedings in Minnesota had no right to sue in any…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Peckham
Of the several grounds of demurrer to the bill herein, only two need be specially noticed. They are (1) that this complainant (receiver) has no right to sue in the courts of a State foreign to that in which he was appointed; and (2) that, even if he had the right to sue, there was no ground of equitable jurisdiction set forth in the bill, and the complainant’s remedy, if any he had, was at law.
The Circuit Court sustained the demurrer on- the ground that no'case for equitable relief was stated, and dismissed the bill without prejudice. The Circuit Court of Appeals sustained that view of the-…
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