Bernheimer v. Converse
Supreme Court of the United States
IN ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OE THE UJSTÍTED STATES FOR . THE .SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK. These are writs-of error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District, óf New York.
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IN ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OE THE UJSTÍTED STATES FOR . THE .SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK. These are writs-of error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District, óf New York. The actions .were brought (January 28, 29, 1904) by Theodore R. Converse as receiver of the Minnesota-Thresher Manufacturing Company, a corporation Of' the' State of Minnesota, to enforce an alleged stockholders’ liability under the constitution, and laws , of the State of Minnesota. . The court below held the executors of Simón. Bernheimer and Isaac ' Bern* heimer, both having died before the.…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Day
Before entering upon a discussion of the objections urged against the validity of ' the assessment upon stockholders which is the subject of controversy here, we may say wé find no reason to disagree with the judgment of the Supreme Court of Minnesota In holding the Minnesota Thresher Manufacturing Company to be a corporation organized for other than the purpose of." carrying on any kind of manufacturing or mechanical business, and therefore not within the exception as to stockholders’ liability-in favor of corporations of that kind. State v. Minnesota Thresher Man. Co., 40 Minnesota, 215;…
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