Opinion

Johnson v. United Railways Co.

  • 281 Mo. 90
  • 219 S.W. 38
  • 1920 Mo. LEXIS 6
Court
Supreme Court of Missouri
Filed
Feb 16, 1920
Status
Published
Author
Graves
On the bench
Cramer, Williamson, Walker, Williams, Blair, Graves, Podson, Goode, Woodson
Cited by
7 cases

transfer of assets from insolvent corporation to another corporation having same officers and virtually identical directors and shareholders was utterly void as to insolvent corporation’s creditors and the assets transferred constitute a trust fund for payment of said creditors.

How later courts described this case

  • transfer of assets from insolvent corporation to another corporation having same officers and virtually identical directors and shareholders was utterly void as to insolvent corporation’s creditors and the assets transferred constitute a trust fund for payment of said creditors.

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

GRAVES, J.

(dissenting). — In this case, I dissent

from the opinion by the learned Special Judge, for the reason expressed by Valliant, C. J., in the case of Johnson v. United Railways Co., 247 Mo. l. c. 366.

Woodson, J.,

concurs in these views.

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