Felker v. Southern Trust Co.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Arkansas; Frank A. Youmans, Judge. Suit by the Southern Trust Company, as trustee, and others, against W. R. Feiker and J. F. Felker, a copartnership doing business under the firm name of the W. R. Felker Construction Company, and others.
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Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Arkansas; Frank A. Youmans, Judge. Suit by the Southern Trust Company, as trustee, and others, against W. R. Feiker and J. F. Felker, a copartnership doing business under the firm name of the W. R. Felker Construction Company, and others. From an order dismissing petitions of W. R. Felker and his partners, and their statement of election to stand on their statutory liens as superior to the mortgage, defendants Felker appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
SANBORN, Circuit Judge.
In a suit in equity pending in the court below, to which the Southern Trust Company, the trustee in the mortgage of January 1, 1907, securing bonds overdue to the amount of some $300,000 on certain railway iiroperty, J. E. Felker, W. R. Felker, and the Felker Construction Company, a co-partnership composed of J. E. Felker and W. R. Felker together, hereafter called the Felkers, claimants of some $210,000, and others, were parties, and in which suit by their pleadings and evidence the Southern Company, on the one hand, and the Felkers, on the other, had claimed the…
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