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Assignments - Effect Of Assignment Of Contract By Receiver Of Liquidating Insolvent Corporation Dec 1935

Assignments - Effect Of Assignment Of Contract By Receiver Of Liquidating Insolvent Corporation

Michigan Law Review

The Chicago Tribune contracted to furnish the Washington Post with four comics and two features at a stipulated price per week. The Post went into the hands of a receiver who continued the contract and eventually assigned it to the Washington Post Publishing Company, plaintiff, along with "all assets of said company [the Post] of every kind, character, and description, except cash." The Post then went out of existence. The plaintiff, assignee, sued to enforce the contract, tendering payment in cash. Held, that the contract was assignable, that there had been a valid assignment, and that the contract remained …


Corporations - Reorganization - Expedition Required Under Section 77b In Agreeing Upon And Presenting Acceptable Plan Dec 1935

Corporations - Reorganization - Expedition Required Under Section 77b In Agreeing Upon And Presenting Acceptable Plan

Michigan Law Review

B corporation filed its petition for reorganization under Section 77B of the Bankruptcy Act. This was contested by answer of bondholders' committee and certain minor creditors as provided for in Section 77B (a) on the ground that reorganization was not in the best interests of the preserving of assets. Held, there is no reason to believe that with a fair and equitable plan of reorganization there would be no substantial equities; therefore, the petition is received and B is allowed to proceed under Section 77B and to present within a reasonable time some plan of reorganization as provided by …


Bankruptcy- Preferred Stockholders As Creditors For Accrued Dividends Under Section 77b Of The Bankruptcy Act Nov 1935

Bankruptcy- Preferred Stockholders As Creditors For Accrued Dividends Under Section 77b Of The Bankruptcy Act

Michigan Law Review

Preferred stockholders were "beguiled" into purchasing their stock, and paid, as part of the subscription price, for accrued dividends at the rate of 6 per cent per annum from June 1, 1933, to the date of their respective subscriptions, upon the "virtual promise of refund" on December 1, 1933, the next dividend date. No dividend was declared or paid. Such stockholders seek to file a petition for the reorganization of the corporation under Section 77B of the Bankruptcy Act as "creditors" within the meaning of the word as employed in that section. Held, they are "creditors" within the meaning …


Corporations - Reorganization Under Section 77 B - Right Of Mortgage Trustee To Vote To Exclusion Of Bondholders May 1935

Corporations - Reorganization Under Section 77 B - Right Of Mortgage Trustee To Vote To Exclusion Of Bondholders

Michigan Law Review

The trustee under a mortgage bond issue which was in default with foreclosure pending, sought to vote to the exclusion of the bondholders on a proposed plan for reorganization in a voluntary proceeding by the corporation debtor pursuant to Section 77B of the Bankruptcy Act. The trust indenture authorized the trustee on default to enforce the security by appropriate proceedings, and the individual bondholders were specifically forbidden to sue. The indenture also gave a majority in interest of the bondholders power by an instrument in writing to direct the procedure of the trustee or to remove him. There was no …


Evasion Of Mortgage Moratoria By Prosecution Of Personal Remedies, Gordon B. Wheeler, Edgar N. Durfee May 1935

Evasion Of Mortgage Moratoria By Prosecution Of Personal Remedies, Gordon B. Wheeler, Edgar N. Durfee

Michigan Law Review

For reasons political, social and economic which have never been fully analyzed, the moratory legislation of the last five years has shown special favor to the debtor whose obligation is secured by mortgage of land, and this legislation is faintly echoed in moratory decisions which have no direct statutory foundation. Granted that contracts have sometimes received similar treatment, that banks and insurance companies have also enjoyed indulgence, and that the new chapters of the Bankruptcy Act extend asylum to all and sundry, yet the mortgage is so far favored that the word "moratorium" brings to mind this case before all …


Constitutional Law--Mortgages--Frazier-Lemke Act May 1935

Constitutional Law--Mortgages--Frazier-Lemke Act

Michigan Law Review

In 1922 and 1924 appellee mortgaged property worth $18,000 to secure a loan of $9,000 from appellant which was to be repaid in installments over a period of thirty-four years. Default being made on the covenants in the mortgage, the mortgagee declared the full amount due and brought a suit to foreclose. Proceedings were stayed when the appellee sought relief under Section 75 of the Bankruptcy Act, but he was unable to obtain the requisite majority in number and amount to the composition proposed. The state court entered a foreclosure judgment and ordered a sale. The mortgagor then sought relief …


Corporations-Reorganization Under Bankruptcy Act-Jurisdiction Extending Throughout United States As Substitute For Ancillary Proceedings May 1935

Corporations-Reorganization Under Bankruptcy Act-Jurisdiction Extending Throughout United States As Substitute For Ancillary Proceedings

Michigan Law Review

On petition of debtor railroad seeking reorganization under Section 77, the District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, eastern division, enjoined non-resident pledgees from exercising their power of sale. Extra-territorial jurisdiction was grounded on Section 77 B, giving to the District Court "exclusive jurisdiction of the debtor and its property wherever located." Held, that "exclusive jurisdiction" means control over the debtor's property wherever located within the United States, and to protect the property process may issue affecting persons anywhere within the United States. Continental Illinois Nat. Bank v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Ry., (U.S. 1935) 55 …


Corporations-Section 77b Of The Bankruptcy Act-To What Corporations It Applies May 1935

Corporations-Section 77b Of The Bankruptcy Act-To What Corporations It Applies

Michigan Law Review

Creditors of a title and mortgage company which had gone into receiver's hands petitioned for a reorganization of the company under Section 77B of the Bankruptcy Act. Held, that the company was an insurance corporation. Insurance corporations are not amenable to Section 77B. Petition for reorganization dismissed. In re New York Title and Mortgage Co., (D. C. N. Y. 1934) 9 F. Supp. 319.


Corporate Reorganization-Section 77 Of The Bankruptcy Act--Power Of Court To Enjoin Sale Of Bonds Pledged As Collateral May 1935

Corporate Reorganization-Section 77 Of The Bankruptcy Act--Power Of Court To Enjoin Sale Of Bonds Pledged As Collateral

Michigan Law Review

The recent Chicago, Rock Island case raised an interesting problem under Section 77 of the Bankruptcy Act. The Chicago, Rock Island as parent railroad of a system extending into one-fourth of the states, had pledged large blocks of its own mortgage bonds and those of its subsidiaries, as security for loans made to it by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation and some Chicago, New York, and St. Louis banks, under an agreement whereby the pledgees were given a power of private sale, without notice, upon set contingencies. In addition to the above it had previously pledged with trustees as security for …


Corporate Reorganization Under The Bankruptcy Act, Joseph Heffernan Apr 1935

Corporate Reorganization Under The Bankruptcy Act, Joseph Heffernan

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


The Rights Of Creditors In Reorganization, Robert W. Crasher Apr 1935

The Rights Of Creditors In Reorganization, Robert W. Crasher

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Banks And Banking - Priorities On Insolvency Of Bank Feb 1935

Banks And Banking - Priorities On Insolvency Of Bank

Michigan Law Review

Plaintiff, clerk of court, deposited in a reputable bank a compensation award known by the bank to be such, pending review in an appropriation proceeding. On the insolvency of the bank, plaintiff sued for the immediate payment of the deposit in full, claiming a preference because: (a) "a special deposit, constituting a trust, was created"; (b) the unauthorized and, consequently, unlawful deposit-of any trust fund in a bank which knows the nature of the fund impresses a trust on the bank. Held, plaintiff was not entitled to a preference over the other depositors in the bank. Busher v. Fulton …


Bills And Notes-Bonds Payable At Office Of Trustee Which Becomes Insolvent After Deposit According To Agreement But Before Bonds Presented, Ralph W. Aigler Jan 1935

Bills And Notes-Bonds Payable At Office Of Trustee Which Becomes Insolvent After Deposit According To Agreement But Before Bonds Presented, Ralph W. Aigler

Michigan Law Review

By the terms of a trust mortgage securing a large bond issue the debtor agreed that it would punctually pay the principal and interest of every bond according to the terms of the bond and coupons and would "deposit the necessary funds for such purpose with the trustee at least five days prior to the respective due dates." For the maturities of March 1st and September 1st, 1931, the requisite funds were deposited. Plaintiff's coupons of March and his bonds and coupons of September were not presented on the due dates and not until after the trustee had failed and …


Sales - Chattel Mortgages Under The Bulk Sales Statutes Jan 1935

Sales - Chattel Mortgages Under The Bulk Sales Statutes

Michigan Law Review

Gessaman, who was a dealer in new and used automobiles, was indebted to the bank and other creditors. While so indebted, he executed and delivered to the acceptance corporation a chattel mortgage upon all the furniture, fixtures, equipment and supplies used in the business. Later the mortgagee took possession of the chattels without suit, and immediately afterward Gessaman was adjudged a bankrupt. The trustee, in behalf of the bank and other creditors, seeks to subject the chattels to a trust in the hands of the acceptance corporation upon the claim that the chattels were taken under a sale in violation …


The Status Of Creditors In Bankruptcy Administration In Kentucky, D. A. Sachs Jr. Jan 1935

The Status Of Creditors In Bankruptcy Administration In Kentucky, D. A. Sachs Jr.

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.