Lamson v. Hutchings
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for. the Northern District of Illinois. This action is at law to enforce against the plaintiffs in error a statutory liability as stockholders in the Cherokee Brilliant Coal & Mining Company, a corporation of the state of Kansas.
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In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for. the Northern District of Illinois. This action is at law to enforce against the plaintiffs in error a statutory liability as stockholders in the Cherokee Brilliant Coal & Mining Company, a corporation of the state of Kansas. That corporation became indebted' to George Fowler in the year 1884, the indebtedness maturing January, 1886. Prior to the maturity of that indebtedness the plaintiffs in error became large stockholders in the corporation, with knowledge of its indebtedness. In October, 1888, Fowler obtained judgment against the…
1Opinion of the Court
JENKINS, Circuit Judge.
The two propositions upon which the case here must turn are: First, whether the court below erred in admitting evidence of the alleged fraudulent transfer by the Ramsons of the 519 shares of the capital stock owned by them in the debtor company; second, whether the claim of the defendant in error is barred by the statute of limitations. When this cause was previously before us (Hutchings v. Ramson, 37 C. C. A. 564, 96 Fed. 720), we held, following our ruling in Rhodes v. Bank, 13 C. C. A. 612, 66 Fed. 512, 34 L. R. A. 742, that the action to enforce liability under the…
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