Goodman v. . White’s Empirical Analysis

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3 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

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1. “The burden of proof upon a plea of payment is on the one pleading it, the defendant in this case. He admits that the stock was not paid for in money, but in property. He must therefore establish that the property was taken in payment at its true value, and further that such value was approved by a board of directors acting independently in the interest of the corporation, whose judgment is conclusive except in case of fraud.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Short v. Commissioner

2. “Such a transaction as that cannot be upheld. It is contra bonos mores, and against sound public policy as well as the statutes of this state,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Short v. Commissioner