Legal Opinion
STATE BY VAN RIPER v. American Sugar Refining Co.
Supreme Court of New Jersey
Decided January 9, 1956PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Jacobs, J.
The State of New Jersey appealed to the Appellate Division from the judgment of the Chancery Division that dividends which had been declared many years ago by The American Sugar Refining Company, a New Jersey corporation, and had remained unclaimed by stockholders whose last known addresses were in Massachusetts, escheated to Massachusetts rather than New Jersey. We certified New Jersey’s appeal under R. R. 1:10-1.
The early common-law doctrine of escheat was confined to real property; it was an incident of tenure and related to the right of…
2Cases cited19 opinions
- Anderson National Bank v. LuckettSupreme Court of the United States · 1944
- Harkin v. BrundageSupreme Court of the United States · 1928
- Standard Oil Co. v. New JerseySupreme Court of the United States · 1951
- State Tax Comm'n of Utah v. AldrichSupreme Court of the United States · 1942
- Hutchison v. RossNew York Court of Appeals · 1933
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3Cited by8 opinions
- State v. American Can Co.Supreme Court of New Jersey · 1964
- State v. SPERRY AND HUTCHINSON CO.New Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division · 1958
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. KervickNew Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division · 1971
- Commonwealth of Penna. v. KervickSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1972
- STATE BY VAN RIPER v. Atlantic City Electric Co.Supreme Court of New Jersey · 1957
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