Legal Opinion

Foster v. Wilson

U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Vermont

Decided August 22, 1896PublishedCited by 9 opinions

This was a suit by Edwin L. Foster against Homer C. Wilson and others to recover an assessment upon the shares of an insolvent national bank.

1Opinion of the Court

WHEELER, District Judge.

This case, as to defendant Henry Chase, has been heard with, and is like, the one preceding (75 Fed. 797), except that the bank is the First National of Deming, N. M., and the minor here became of age, and assented to holding the stock, after the assessment was made, and before suit was brought. The cause of action accrued when the assessment was made, to which the defendant then became, and was, accordingly, liable. The ratification by the minor on becoming of age afterwards would not affect the cause of action that before had fully accrued against the defendant.…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Foster v. ChaseU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Vermont · 1896

3Cited by9 opinions

  1. Early v. RichardsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1930
  2. Heiden v. CreminCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1933
  3. Hospelhorn, Receiver v. BurkeSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1938
  4. McDowell v. RamboCourt of Appeals of Tennessee · 1937
  5. McDowell v. ReesCourt of Appeals of Tennessee · 1938

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