Egbert v. Sun Co.’s Empirical Analysis
126 F. 568 · 1903
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Relies on Merchants' Bank v. State Bank · Pittsburgh, Cincinnati & St. Louis Railway Co. v. Keokuk & Hamilton Bridge Co. · Indianapolis Rolling-Mill Co v. St Louis Ft S W R Co
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““The author finds his justification for the publication of so large a work upon a single title of the law * * * in the fact that upon no subject in that law has this growth been as rapid and as rank as upon the subject here under consideration. The statement of a single fact made by Mr. Justice Field in his oration delivered at the Centennial Celebration of the Supreme Court of the United States in the city of New York in 1890 that four-fifths of the wealth of the country is held by corporations will give emphasis to what is here said. * * * This work was commenced more than 16 years ago. * * * Since its commencement great changes have taken place in the American law of private corporations. The American doctrine that the capital stock of a corporation, including its unpaid share subscriptions, is a trust fund for its creditors has during that period been greatly modified — so mneh. so that it may now bo doubted whether the capital of a corporation is a trust fund for its creditors in any different sense than the sense in which the property of a private person is a trust fund for his creditors- The doctrine formerly held by many of the state courts and emphasized by a decision of the Supreme Court of the United States and still firmly insisted upon in England that the shares of a corporation can be sold and distributed only at full value either in money or in property has been greatly shaken, if not overthrown, by recent decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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