Questão jurídica principal
Whether the claimants could sue the defendants for their own direct loss
Decisão extraída
No. As cessionaries of the bankruptcy estate, they could only claim damage caused directly to the company and indirectly to creditors, not their own direct loss.
Fundamentação extraída
The provisions invoked did not protect creditors exclusively, and no tort or culpa in contrahendo was alleged. The claim therefore had to proceed via the ceded estate claims only.