Legal Opinion
Christopher v. Brusselback
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided January 3, 1938No. 108PublishedCited by 48 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Stone
Respondents, creditors of a Federal Joint Stock Land Bank located in Illinois, brought the present suit in the district court for southern Ohio to collect a 100% assessment of the statutory double liability of its shareholders, which had previously been decreed in a suit brought by respondents in the district court for northern Illinois. In the Illinois suit the bank and all its stockholders were named as parties defendant, but the present defendants, petitioners here, who are stockholders residing in Ohio, were not served with process. A motion in the district court to dismiss the present…
2Cases cited14 opinions
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- Converse v. HamiltonSupreme Court of the United States · 1912
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3Cited by48 opinions
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