Rogers v. Jarden’s Empirical Analysis

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1. ““On the other hand, in Matteson v. Dent, in holding the liability to be a debt of the estate of a deceased stockholder, the court said: ‘The obligation of a subscriber to stock to contribute to the amount of his subscription for the purpose of the payment of debts is contractual, and arises from the subscription to the stock. * * * This contract obligation, existing during life, is not extinguished by death, but like other contract obligations survives and is enforceable against the estate of the stockholder.’ “The situation _ which produced the apparent diversity of rulings in the foregoing cases exists in the present case. The trouble is that the Legislature usually fails to recognize and provide for quasi contractual obligations as a separate and distinct class, and, in construing the various statutes, it is necessary, therefore, to attempt to classify them as either contractual or noncontractual. In each case the governing consideration is the policy of the statute or law to be construed and what it was intended to accomplish.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Slaughter v. Brown