In re A. O. Brown & Co.
District Court, S.D. New York
In the matter of A. O. Brown & Co., bankrupts. On report of referee with respect to claims upon the fund on deposit with the Hanover National Bank. Report confirmed.
1Opinion of the Court
HAND, District Judge.
The distribution of this fund involves a great many different controversies which must be considered separately. I will take them up in the same order as the master.
Ex parte Schuyler, Chadwick, and Burnham.
The facts are stated in the referee’s report very fully. I concur with him in finding that the stocks were procured by fraud, and that therefore the claimants had the right to rescind their contract and follow the stock or its proceeds. I do not concur with the master in finding that the proceeds of the stock were contained in the check for $23,000, if by that he means…
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- United States v. KirkpatrickSupreme Court of the United States · 1824
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- In re T. A. McIntyre & Co.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1910
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