Williams v. Turner’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

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1. ““As this is a creditors’ suit for the benefit of all creditors of the company, equity and justice demand that the bonds so taken by defendants, or their value, shall be. returned to the eompdny, and all simple con tract creditors share alike, unless the principal contention of the defendants that they had an equitable lien on the bonds by them received from the company is sustained by the proofs. The master finds no such lien to have existed; that all defendants save Jack-man had any lien or claim op any of the bonds, save for the $76,000 and interest he advanced under the agreement, he should take and hold as collateral for money theretofore by him furnished all- the bonds then due the company; but as to the money theretofore by him and the other defendants advanced to prosecute the business of the company, no lien or other equity existed superior to the rights of other simple contract creditors, and that it would be unjust and unequitable to allow them as officials of the company to pay themselves and leave other creditors go imp aid. In this I am clearly of the opinion, from the proofs and on his record, the findings of the master are right, and must be sustained.”,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Jackman v. Newbold