· 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
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- 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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