Northern Pac. R. v. Lamont
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Appeal from tlie Circuit Court of the United. States for the District of North Dakota. This was an intervening petition filed by Joseph Lamont in the consolidated cause of the Fanners’ Loan & Trust Company, P. P>. Winston, and others against; the .Northern Pacific Railroad Company, praying for the payment by the receivers of a judgment held by Jam as a preferential debt. Tlie circuit court granted the petition.
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Appeal from tlie Circuit Court of the United. States for the District of North Dakota. This was an intervening petition filed by Joseph Lamont in the consolidated cause of the Fanners’ Loan & Trust Company, P. P>. Winston, and others against; the .Northern Pacific Railroad Company, praying for the payment by the receivers of a judgment held by Jam as a preferential debt. Tlie circuit court granted the petition. The Farmers’ Loan & Trust Company and the railroad company appealed. Receivers were appointed for the Northern Pacific Railroad Company by the United States circuit court, for the…
1Opinion of the CourtCaldwell, Circuit Judge
The money for which the intervener recovered judgment was in fact due to him for providing, furnishing, and maintaining for the railroad company at Fargo waiting rooms for its passengers, office room for its ticket agents, and a convenient place for its employés to board and lodge at reduced rates. To defeat the preferential character of this claim, the court would have to be satisfied that waiting rooms for passengers and an office for the ticket agents are not essential or necessary, at a town of several thousand population, on the Northern Pacific Railroad. We are asked, in effect, to hold…
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