Kenyon v. Fowler’s Empirical Analysis
155 F. 107 · 1907
Citation profile
12
cited by 12 later decisions
1
states following
May 1939
most recently cited
4 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Richmond v. Irons · Keyser v. Hitz · Matteson v. Dent · Rankin v. Fidelity Insurance, Trust & Safe Deposit Co. · Finn v. Brown
Most-quoted passages
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““It is true, as already suggested, there was evidence tending to show that the transfers of stock were made originally without defendant’s knowledge, and the jury might reasonably have concluded, under all the evidence, that the transfers were made, and caused to be made, by her husband. * * * The vital question remained, whether the defendant became the owner of the stock within the meaning of the statute regulating the individual liability of the shareholders of national banking associations. :S * * “If she became amare of the transfers, after they were made, and thereafter received the dividends, she became a shareholder for all purposes of individual liability in respect to the contracts, debts and engagements of the bank, as fully as if the transfers had been made originally with her knowledge and consent. * * * “We must not bo understood as saying that the mere transfer of the stocks n the books of the bank to the name of the defendant imposed upon her the individual liability attached by law to the position of shareholder In a national banking association. If the transferís were, in fact, 'Without her knowledge or consent, and she 7oas not informed of what was so done. — nothing more appearing, she would not he held to have assumed or incurred liaMUty for the debts, contracts and engagements of the bamlc. But if, after the transfers she joined in the application to convert the savings bank into a national bank, or in any otiier mode approved, ratified or acquiesced in ”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Williams v. Vreeland
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