Anglo-American Land, Mortgage & Agency Co. v. Lombard
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Kansas. These were actions at law prosecuted by plaintiffs in error, as creditors of the Lombard Investment Company, a Kansas corporation (called herein the “Kansas Company”), against defendants in error, as stockholders of that company, to enforce the additional or double liability imposed by the Constitution and statutes of Kansas upon stockholders in corporations organized under the laws of that state,…
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In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Kansas. These were actions at law prosecuted by plaintiffs in error, as creditors of the Lombard Investment Company, a Kansas corporation (called herein the “Kansas Company”), against defendants in error, as stockholders of that company, to enforce the additional or double liability imposed by the Constitution and statutes of Kansas upon stockholders in corporations organized under the laws of that state, and to enforce a claimed unpaid subscription to additional stock issued by the corporation. The petitions allege, in…
1Opinion of the CourtVan Devanter, Circuit Judge
As the principal object of these actions is to enforce the additional or double liability imposed upon stockholders in corporations organized under the laws of the state of Kansas, a statement of the *729nature of this liability and of the rights of corporate creditors in its enforcement, as established by judicial decisions, will assist in the consideration of the questions presented.
The constitutional and statutory provisions in Kansas, before quoted, are to be taken together as making one body of law, and as casting a certain definite liability upon each stockholder in other than railway,…
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