Converse, Receiver v. Aetna National Bank
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Actions brought to the Superior Court for Hartford County by a Minnesota receiver against a national banking association, as a shareholder in a Minnesota corporation, to collect an assessment made against the respective defendants and other shareholders in the latter by a Minnesota court, under the Minnesota statute imposing a double liability on shareholders of an insolvent corporation.
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Actions brought to the Superior Court for Hartford County by a Minnesota receiver against a national banking association, as a shareholder in a Minnesota corporation, to collect an assessment made against the respective defendants and other shareholders in the latter by a Minnesota court, under the Minnesota statute imposing a double liability on shareholders of an insolvent corporation. A judgment was originally rendered in each case for the plaintiff, after overruling a demurrer to the complaint. On appeal this judgment was reversed (79 Conn. 163) and the cause remanded for further…
1Opinion of the CourtBaldwin, C. J.
The demurrer to the complaint sets up four grounds of attack: (1) that the plaintiff, suing as a foreign receiver, has no locus standi in our courts; (2) that the Minnesota order of assessment was made in an action to which the defendant, being a nonresident, had not been made a party, and by a court having no jurisdiction over it; (3) that the statute of Minnesota under which the assessment was made was not enacted until after the defendant had become a shareholder in the Minnesota corporation, and was therefore as to the defendant inoperative and void, since it would, if operative against…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- British American Insurance v. WilsonSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1905
- Converse, Receiver v. Aetna National BankSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1906
- Clarke's Appeal from ProbateSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1898
3Cited by4 opinions
- Mazzotta v. BornsteinSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1926
- Beckerle v. City of DanburySupreme Court of Connecticut · 1907
- Beach v. PisarekSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1925
- Converse v. Emerson, Talcott & Co.Appellate Court of Illinois · 1909