Nollman & Co. v. Wentworth Lunch Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM AND CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT. This case involved the question whether a corporation principally or solely engaged in carrying on a general restaurant business comes within those classes of corporations which are subject to the provisions of the Bankruptcy Act of 1898 as engaged in manufacturing, printing, publishing, trading or mercantile pursuits.
1Per curiam
Judgment affirmed on the authority of Toxaway Hotel Company v. Smothers & Co., decided February 21, 1910 (216 U. S. 439). 1
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The pertinent part of the headnote in this case is as follows:
A corporation engaged principally in running hotels is not a corporation engaged principally in trading or mercantile pursuits, within the meaning of § 4, subs, b, of the Bankruptcy Act of 1898.
Where' Congress has not expressly declared a word to have' a particular meaning, it will be presumed to have used the word in its well-understood public and judicial meaning, and cases based on a declaration made by…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Toxaway Hotel Co. v. Smathers & Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1910
3Cited by2 opinions
- Weedin v. Wong JunCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1925
- In re Imperial Film ExchangeCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1912