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· 12/7/1936

McKee v. Paradise

Citations

  • 299 U.S. 119
  • 57 S. Ct. 124
  • 81 L. Ed. 75
  • 1936 U.S. LEXIS 994

How courts have described this case

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

  • assets must be available to the employers’ creditors even if default to the employees is “an acute disappointment” or “especially regrettable.”
  • where no constructive trust was found by the Supreme Court
  • “The bankrupt was a debtor which had failed to pay its debt. We know of no principle upon which that failure can be treated as a conversion of property held in trust.... [T]he mere failure to pay a debt does not belong in that category.”

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Judges: Hughes, Stone

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