T. A. D. Jones Co. v. Winchester Repeating Arms Co.

L. HAND, Circuit Judge.

The appeal involves the validity of a claim presented to the receivers of the defendant, a Delaware corporation, appointed in a creditor’s bill to sequester and distribute its assets. The only question is whether the claim was valid. The facts are as follows: One, Davis, was the lessee of certain premises in Jacksonville, Florida, which he in turn let to the Winchester Company, a Connecticut company, which after that company’s assignment of the term,'hereafter mentioned, conveyed its assets to the defendant, which assumed its liabilities. Davis thereafter conveyed his…