Crook, Horner & Co. v. Old Point Comfort Hotel Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Virginia
In Equity. Bill by Crook, Horner & Co. against the Old Point Comfort Hovel Company and others, praying for the adjudication of liens, the appointment of a receiver, the completion by the court ox the unfinished hotel building of the defendant company, the Side thereof after its completion, and other relief. On exceptions to the master’s report.
1Opinion of the Court
HUGHES, District Judge.
This case is heard on sundry exceptions to the report of the master in chancery appointed by the court, marshaling the liens resting on the property of the hotel company. This property consists exclusively of an unfinished hotel building of large dimensions and cost, called the “Chamberlin Hotel,” and standing on land belonging to the United States by cession from the state of Virginia.
The principal question before the court is upon the priority of liens. The hotel building is under a mortgage from the defendant company to the Knickerbocker Trust Company of Kew York…
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