United States v. Strang
Citations
- 254 U.S. 491
- 41 S. Ct. 165
- 65 L. Ed. 368
- 1921 U.S. LEXIS 1892
Syllabus
<p>1. A person employed as an inspector by the Emergency Fleet Corporation is not an agent of the United States, within the meaning of § 41 of the Criminal Code. E. 491.</p> <p>2. The Emergency Fleet Corporation, though all of its stock is owned by the United States, is a separate entity. P. 492.</p> <p>3. Generally agents of á corporation are not agents for the stockholders and cannot contract for them. Id.</p> <p>Affirmed.</p>
How courts have described this case
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- “a state, when it becomes a stockholder in a bank, imparts none of its attributes of sovereignty to the institution; this is equally the case, whether it own a whole or a part of the stock of the bank”
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Judges: McReynolds, Clarke
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