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Coombes Vs. Getz

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Apr 11, 1932

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  12. U.S. 434 (1932) U.S. Supreme Court Coombes v. Getz
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  13. U.S. 434 (1932) Coombes v. Getz
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  14. of the provision of law upon which it was based. The court sustained the motion and dismissed the appeal, Coombes v. Franklin
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  15. or statutory provisions said to create the contract or by which it is asserted an impairment has been effected. Scott v. McNeal
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  16. Mobile & Ohio R. Co. v. Tennessee
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  17. Louisiana Ry. & Nav. Co. v. New
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  18. New Orleans Waterworks v. Louisiana
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  19. Bridge Proprietors v. Hoboken
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  20. vested property rights nor the obligation of contracts of third persons may be destroyed or impaired. Tomlinson v. Jessup
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  21. Lake Shore & M.S. Ry. Co. v. Smith
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  22. U. S. 684 , 173 U. S. 690 . Compare Greenwood v. Freight
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  23. not destroy or impair the previously vested right of the creditor (which in every sense was a property right, Ettor v. Tacoma
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  24. U. S. 124 , 106 U. S. 132 ) to enforce his cause of action upon the contract. Ettor v. Tacoma
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  25. Steamship Co. v. Joliffe
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  26. Ochiltree v. Railroad
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  27. Harrison v. Remington
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  28. Knickerbocker Trust Co. v. Myers
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  29. constitutional provision which entered into the contract, and will be followed and applied by this Court. Warburton v. White
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  30. Ennis Water Works v. Ennis
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  31. they fail to establish the premises upon which the conclusion is based. The decisions chiefly relied upon are Moss v. Smith
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  32. Cal. 777, 155 P. 90, and Willcox v. Edwards
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  33. Moss v. Smith
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  34. Nothing in Winchester v. Howard
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  35. As already suggested, Winchester v. Howard
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  36. in the latter, it is contractual. In Willcox v. Edwards
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  37. otherwise if the court had deemed the right to be contractual. Another case relied upon is Napa state Hospital v. Flaherty
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  38. in the eye of the law, created against himself a contractual liability in the nature of a suretyship. Harrison v. Remington
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  39. and effect of the transaction are no longer open. It is settled by decisions of this and other federal courts ( Ettor v. Tacoma
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  40. November 4, 1930. The Supreme Court of California has said that the liability thus created is contractual ( Dean v. Shingle
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  41. the tangle is unraveled. The petitioner had a contract with the corporation, and not with anyone else ( Crane v. Hahlo
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  42. law to the obligation of that contract was a liability purely statutory imposed on the directors. Compare Christopher v. Norvell
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  43. the embezzled moneys as if the director were a surety to the corporation for the acts of its defaulting officer. Dean v. Shingle
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  44. Winchester v. Howard
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  45. the product is a contract to be protected Page 285 U. S. 450 by the power of the nation. Appleby v. New
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  46. aimed at true agreements, and not at quasi -contracts, as distinguished from agreements implied in fact. Crane v. Hahlo
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  47. Louisiana v. New
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  48. first instance to the corporation itself, though the creditors and shareholders were privileged to enforce it. Dean v. Shingle
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  49. cast upon directors and one cast upon the shareholders, who are quasi -partners in the venture. Corning v. McCullough
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  50. or the Fourteenth Amendment (which, however, is not invoked) might then stand in the way. Hawthorne v. Calef
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