CONVERSE v. HAMILTON

Nos. 42, 43.

224 U.S. 243 (1912)

CONVERSE, RECEIVER, v. HAMILTON. SAME v. McCAULEY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 1, 1912.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. C.A. Severance, with whom Mr. Burr W. Jones, Mr. E.J.B. Schubring, Mr. Frank B. Kellogg and Mr. Robert E. Olds were on the brief, for plaintiff in error.

Mr. Charles E. Buell, with whom Mr. John B. Sanborn and Mr. Chauncey E. Blake were on the brief, for defendant in error.


MR. JUSTICE VAN DEVANTER delivered the opinion of the court.

These were actions at law, brought in the Circuit Court of Dane County, Wisconsin, by a receiver of an insolvent Minnesota corporation, the Minnesota Thresher Manufacturing Company, to enforce an asserted double liability of two of its stockholders. The facts stated in the complaints, which were substantially alike, were these: A judgment creditor, upon whose judgment...

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