Oklahoma Ex Rel. Johnson v. Cook

How courts have described this case

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

• State, pursuant to a state statute, sought to enforce claims of creditors and depositors of an insolvent bank
• it is not enough that the State is a plaintiff to bring a case within the original jurisdiction of the Supreme Court
• original jurisdiction improper where State was acting as trustee for its citizens
• following New Hampshire and explaining-the “underlying point of the decision”
• “Since the state is the proper party plaintiff by virtue of the ... statute, it may maintain the action regardless of whether it is the real party in interest or merely a nominal plaintiff for the use and benefit of [affected citizens].”
• state acting on behalf of private creditors

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).