William Irwin Grubb
Judge Grubb no longer hears cases. This profile is preserved as a historical record of how they ruled.
How Judge Grubb decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
What persuades
Grubb required claimants seeking a constructive trust to trace their money into identified property rather than point generally to the estate’s assets.
“The burden is on the plaintiffs to point out the specific prop*339erty and trace the plaintiffs’ money into the purchase money of it.”
He valued disputed stock by considering subscription evidence, selling costs, and the speculative character of the enterprise rather than accepting either side’s figure wholesale.
“After taking all of these factors into consideration, I have arrived at the conclusion that it will be proper to fix the fair market value of the stock received by the plaintiff at $90 per unit.”
Procedural preferences
Grubb favored giving properly represented majority creditors a reasonable opportunity to select their own trustee.
“The creditors have the right to administer what is practically their own property by a proper trustee of their own choosing, and they should have such time as may be reasonable to see if they cannot get together upon so vital a subject.”
He treated an otherwise valid objection as untimely when it was withheld until after the trustee’s appointment and qualification.
“This would have been a valid objection, if interposed at the creditors’ meeting.”
Cautions
Grubb weighed uncompensable harm when deciding whether to grant temporary trademark relief.
“I think the greater probability of injury, not capable of being indemnified against, is with the denial of the temporary injunction.”
He denied interim relief where a declaratory ordinance did not itself alter the parties’ legal position.
“The passage of such an ordinance, merely declaratory in its nature, did not change the situation or the attitude of the parties to each other, or afford the plaintiff any ground for injunctive relief, if it had none before”
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“I think her application should be granted; and it is so ordered.”
“The right of plaintiffs to the continuance of the restraining order preventing the loans by the P. W. A. to the municipal corporations can be determined only after the completion of the hearing in the main case”
“After taking all of these factors into consideration, I have arrived at the conclusion that it will be proper to fix the fair market value of the stock received by the plaintiff at $90 per unit.”
“For these reasons, the intervention will be dismissed at intervener’s costs, and it is so ordered.”
“The appointment of the trustee is confirmed, and the petition for review dismissed, at the costs of the petitioners.”
“the petition for review filed by V. G. Dane and others in this cause be, and the same is hereby, denied, overruled,-and dismissed.”
“The petition of the bankrupt to review the referee’s order is denied, at his costs.”
“The final decree should permanently enjoin the making of the loans, where employed or to be employed for construction of a distribution system in furtherance of the purchase of Tennessee Valley Authority power and definitely predicated on Tennessee Valley Authority as the source of power.”
“a discharge will be granted the bankrupt, excluding from its operation the debt of Odum & Bowers, the objecting creditor.”
“The motion of the trustee in bankruptcy to dismiss the said petition for review is hereby overruled”
“the said petition for review is hereby granted.”
“I think the greater probability of injury, not capable of being indemnified against, is with the denial of the temporary injunction.”
“For these reasons I think the petition for review should be granted, and the referee directed to set aside the appointment of the trustee, and call another creditors’ meeting for the election of a trustee”
Caseload & timing
From public federal docket records for this judge.
No complete case-level docket survives from this tenure, so no caseload mix or timing claim is made.
A historical record
Judge Grubb no longer hears cases. This profile stays available as a record of how they ruled. If you're preparing for a matter, start from the court's current bench.