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In re Grand Union Co.

Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

Decided December 15, 1914No. 87PublishedCited by 84 opinions

Petition to Revise and Appeal from Order of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.

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Petition to Revise and Appeal from Order of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. This cause comes here on petition to revise and appeal from a final order made and entered in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York on June 8, 1914, denying a motion made by the Hamilton Investment Company for an order directing the receiver and trustee of the Grand Union Company to account to it for any and all moneys that he had collected or that had come into his possession from the Grand Union Company out of certain leases and for…

1Opinion of the CourtRogers, Circuit Judge

(after stating the facts as above). The court below denied the petitioner’s application because in its opinion the contract was in reality not a contract for the purchase and sale of piano leases as it purported on its face to be, but was one providing for loans with the leases as security. The court was also of the opinion that such a contract of loan was contrary to the charter of the petitioner and the existing statutes of the state of Illinois and was ultra vires and void. It also adjudged the contract to be in violation of the Banking Law of the state of New York, and it held that the…

2Cases cited6 opinions

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  2. Jacksonville, Mayport, Pablo Railway & Navigation Co. v. HooperSupreme Court of the United States · 1896
  3. National Home Building & Loan Ass'n v. Home Savings BankIllinois Supreme Court · 1899
  4. Chase & Baker Co. v. National Trust & Credit Co.District Court, N.D. Illinois · 1914
  5. In re American Fibre Reed Co.District Court, E.D. Kentucky · 1913

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  3. Milana v. Credit Discount Co.California Supreme Court · 1945
  4. Citadel Management, Inc. v. Telesis Trust, Inc.District Court, S.D. New York · 2000
  5. In re ChambersCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2003

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