National Shoe & Leather Bank's Appeal from Commissioners
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Appeal from the disallowance of a claim by the commissioners on the assigned estate of Brown & Brothers, an insolvent corporation; taken to the Superior Court in New Haven County, and heal’d before Stoddard, J. The court made the following finding of facts.
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Appeal from the disallowance of a claim by the commissioners on the assigned estate of Brown & Brothers, an insolvent corporation; taken to the Superior Court in New Haven County, and heal’d before Stoddard, J. The court made the following finding of facts. Prior to the year 1858 the partnership of Brown Bros., composed of several brothers named respectively Philo, William, James, and Augustus Brown, was carrying on in the town of Waterbury the business of manufacturing copper and brass goods. In that year the partnership was transformed into a joint stock corporation under the name of “…
1Opinion of the CourtLoomis, J.
The appellant bank presented to the commissioners on the assigned estate of Brown & Brothers, an insolvent corporation, a claim aggregating the sum of twenty-nine thousand nine hundred dollars, represented originally by three notes, one dated January 15th, 1884, for $2,400, one dated March 15th, 1884, for $12,500, and one dated March 27th, 1884, for $15,000, all signed by Wm. H. Brown, and payable to H. N. Knapp, cashier of the appellant bank, four months from date, and all indorsed “ Wm. H. Brown, Agent,” and discounted at the appellant bank and the avails appropriated to pay the legitimate…
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- Winsted Hosiery Co. v. New Britain Knitting Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1897
- Farrel v. National Shoe & Leather BankU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Connecticut · 1890