THOMAS v. MATTHIESSEN

No. 171.

232 U.S. 221 (1914)

34 S.Ct. 312

58 L.Ed. 577

THOMAS v. MATTHIESSEN.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided February 2, 1914.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Alfred Adams Wheat, with whom Mr. Philip Ashton Rollins was on the brief, for petitioner.

Mr. Arthur C. Rounds, with whom Mr. Harold Otis was on the brief, for respondent.


MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the court.

This is a suit by a citizen of California, the holder of two notes made in California by the Wentworth Hotel Company, to recover from a stockholder in that corporation, a citizen of New York, a proportionate share of the sums due upon the same. The facts as agreed and found are as follows. The corporation was formed under the laws of the Territory of Arizona, among many...

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