Best v. . Thiel’s Empirical Analysis
1879
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently November 1965
1 federal appellate · 18 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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Most-quoted passages
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““Second. The defendant is estopped from denying the legal validity of the mortgage. It was given expressly to make up the deficit in the assets of the bank and to enable it to go on with its business. It was reported to the banking department as a portion of the assets and was in effect represented to the depositors of the bank as a portion of the assets, and all this was done by the defendant and with his knowledge and assent. ... It was in reliance upon this and the other securities gwen, that depositors were induced to make and leave deposits in the bank; and hence, upon the clearest principles of justice and morality, the defendant should be estopped from denying the validity of this mortgage.” (p. 18.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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