Crissey v. Morrill
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Kansas. This is a proceeding which was begun by E. B. Crissey, the plaintiff in error, against E. N. Morrill and Alexander Caldwell, the defendants in error, who were stockholders of the Interstate Loan & Trust Company, to enforce a liability imposed upon them as stockholders under and by virtue of the laws of the state of Kansas, where the Trust Company was incorporated and had its domicile.
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In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Kansas. This is a proceeding which was begun by E. B. Crissey, the plaintiff in error, against E. N. Morrill and Alexander Caldwell, the defendants in error, who were stockholders of the Interstate Loan & Trust Company, to enforce a liability imposed upon them as stockholders under and by virtue of the laws of the state of Kansas, where the Trust Company was incorporated and had its domicile. The lower court made a special' finding of facts, from which we have extracted such facts as are deemed material to the correct…
1Opinion of the CourtThayer, Circuit Judge
The first question that is presented by the plaintiff in error for our consideration is whether the statute of limitations had run in favor of the defendants in error as respects so much of the unpaid judgment for $6,792.20, in favor of the plaintiff in error, as was made up of the bond which was executed by Sire and wife on July 1, 1887, in the sum of $2,000. The trial court seems to have decided this question in the affirmative, holding that the entire judgment was barred, but it is insisted that such decision was erroneous.
In view of the foregoing statement, it is apparent that the Sire…
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