Lea v. George M. West Co.
District Court, E.D. Virginia
In Bankruptcy. On the 12th day of December, 1898, the defendant company caused to be admitted to record in the chancery court of the city of Richmond a general deed of assignment to Joseph V. Bidgood, trustee, conveying to him all its property, estate, and effects for the payment of its creditors, without preference, exeexit as allowed under the laws of the state of Virginia.
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In Bankruptcy. On the 12th day of December, 1898, the defendant company caused to be admitted to record in the chancery court of the city of Richmond a general deed of assignment to Joseph V. Bidgood, trustee, conveying to him all its property, estate, and effects for the payment of its creditors, without preference, exeexit as allowed under the laws of the state of Virginia. On the same day certain creditors, secured in said general assignment, filed a Bill in equity in the law and equity court of the city of Richmond to administer the trust, and the said court appointed the trustee named in…
1Opinion of the CourtWaddill, District Judge
(after stating the facts as above). The pleadings in this case present two questions for the consideration of the court: First. Whether a general assignment for the benefit of creditors constitutes an act of bankruptcy; and, second, if an act of bankruptcy, what effect the action of the state court appointing a receiver to administer the trust under the deed of assignment should have in the administration of the trust estate,—that is to say, whether the state or bankrupt court should, after the adjudication of bankruptcy, administer the trust estate.
*238The present bankrupt law (section 3)…
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