# Willcox v. Edwards

> California Supreme Court · March 30, 1912 · 162 Cal. 455

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/3300691

## Case

- **Full name:** GEORGE M. WILLCOX, as Administrator With the Will Annexed of the Estate of F. W. Sisson, Deceased, Appellant, v. W. EDWARDS, Doing Business Under the Name and Style of Edwards & Company, Respondent; GEORGE M. WILLCOX, as Administrator With the Will Annexed of the Estate of F. W. Sisson, Deceased, Appellant, v. CHARLES E. PAXTON, Respondent; GEORGE M. WILLCOX, as Administrator With the Will Annexed of the Estate of F. W. Sisson, Deceased, Appellant, v. FRANK R. LEWIS, Respondent
- **Court:** California Supreme Court
- **Decided:** March 30, 1912
- **Citations:** 162 Cal. 455; 123 P. 276; 1912 Cal. LEXIS 559
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Shaw
- **Judges:** Shaw
- **Cited by:** 37 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

SHAW, J. concurring.
I concur in the judgment of reversal. I agree "with the conclusion that the contracts for the purchase of stocks on margin, being void under the constitutional provision existing at the time said contracts were made, were not made valid by the subsequent amendment in effect
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repealing the vitiating provision. And I agree that the stocks pledged to secure these void contracts belonged of right to the pledgor and the plaintiff is entitled to recover them. I express no opinion upon the proposition that the money paid upon the marginal contracts cannot now be recovered back by the plaintiff.
Angellotti, J., concurred with Justice Shaw.

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