American Surety Co. of NY v. Sampsell

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• contractual and statutory rights under state law are not applied literally in bankruptcy proceedings if result is inequitable
• contractual and statutory rights under state law are not applied literally in bankruptcy proceedings if result is inequitable
• “federal bankruptcy law, not state law, governs the distribution of a bankrupt’s assets to his creditors”
• “[W]e recently had occasion to reiterate that federal bankruptcy law, not state law, governs the distribution of a bankrupt’s assets to his creditors.”
• “federal bankruptcy law, not state law, governs the distribution of a bankrupt’s assets to his creditors”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).