Crippen v. Laighton
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Bill in Equity, alleging that on June 10, 1890, the plaintiffs recovered judgment in the district court of the county of Dickinson, in the state of Kansas, against the Corn State Bank, a corporation established January 31, 1887, by the laws of Kansas, for $865.70, debt, and costs taxed at $215.85; that execution issued on the judgment and was returned unsatisfied; that the defendant subscribed for and “ actually ” took five shares of the capital stock of the bank of the par…
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Bill in Equity, alleging that on June 10, 1890, the plaintiffs recovered judgment in the district court of the county of Dickinson, in the state of Kansas, against the Corn State Bank, a corporation established January 31, 1887, by the laws of Kansas, for $865.70, debt, and costs taxed at $215.85; that execution issued on the judgment and was returned unsatisfied; that the defendant subscribed for and “ actually ” took five shares of the capital stock of the bank of the par value of $100 each; that by the law of Kansas the plaintiff may have and recover of the defendant, as an individual…
1Opinion of the CourtBlodgett, C. J.
The question submitted is whether the plaintiffs’ bill (or action at law, if they are permitted to amend) can be maintained; or, in other words, whether a cause of action unknown to the common law, and which exists only by reason of a local law of the state of Kansas, can, or ought to be, enforced in this jurisdiction.
The several states of the Union do not stand in their relations to each other altogether like foreign countries. They are all subject in many respects to a superior sovereignty, and to numerous laws common to all of them. They are in various ways mutually dependent upon each…
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