RUSSELL v. TODD

No. 329.

309 U.S. 280 (1940)

RUSSELL ET AL., CO-PARTNERS, v. TODD ET AL., CO-PARTNERS.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided February 26, 1940.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Ralph M. Carson, with whom Messrs. Samuel A. Pleasants and John B. Coleman were on the brief, for petitioners.

Mr. George A. Spiegelberg for Todd et al., respondents, and Lissenden et al., intervener-respondents.


MR. JUSTICE STONE delivered the opinion of the Court.

The question decisive of this case is whether, in a suit brought in the federal district court in New York to enforce the statutory liability of shareholders of a joint stock land bank for its debts, the court rightly declined to apply the three-year state statute of limitations.

Respondents Todd, Work and Weiss, copartners, in behalf of themselves and other creditors...

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