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FERRY v. RAMSEY

Nos. 407 to 418, inclusive.

277 U.S. 88 (1928)

48 S.Ct. 443

72 L.Ed. 796

FERRY v. RAMSEY ET AL. HARRIS, EXECUTOR, v. RAMSEY ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 14, 1928.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. J.B. McKay and L.J. Bond were on the brief for Ferry.

Mr. S.M. Brewster, with whom Messrs. John L. Hunt and Bruce A. Campbell were on the brief, for Harris.

Mr. Karl M. Geddes, with whom Messrs. John J. Jones and B.R. Leydig were on the brief, for defendants in error.

MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the Court.

These writs of error are brought by Ferry, formerly a director of the Butler County State Bank, of Kansas, and by the executor of a deceased director, to set aside judgments against them in suits by depositors in the bank, on the ground that the statutes of Kansas purporting to establish the directors' liability were contrary to the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution...

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