Crook v. International Trust Co.
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Hearing on appeals from two judgments of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, on verdict, the causes having been consolidated for trial, in actions on a stock subscription agreement.
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Hearing on appeals from two judgments of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, on verdict, the causes having been consolidated for trial, in actions on a stock subscription agreement. The Court in the opinion stated the facts as follows: These were actions begun by the International Trust Company of Maryland to recover instalments accruing due at different periods, upon a subscription made by Harrison Crook to the preferred capital stock of the National Vaccine & Formaldehyde Company, a corporation organized under the laws of Virginia. The testimony set out in the bill of exceptions…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Chief' Justice Si-iepard
delivered the opinion of the ■Court:
1. The first and third assignments of error relate to the refusal of the court to direct a verdict for the defendant, as well as to give the second and third special instructions. Under these the contention is that the plaintiff has no right to maintain the action as assignee of the subscription contract, because, on October 22, 1906, when assigned, the first call had not been made.
Without regard to the question of the general right to assign such contracts, whereon no call shall have been made, or of the operation of the special…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Merchants' Bank v. State BankSupreme Court of the United States · 1871
- Scovill v. ThayerSupreme Court of the United States · 1882
- Dickerman v. Northern Trust Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1900
- Handley v. StutzSupreme Court of the United States · 1891
- Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railway Co. v. Louisville Trust Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1899
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