Brown & Adams v. United Button Co.
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the District of Delaware.
1Opinion of the Court
ARCHBALD, District Judge.
The question is whether a claim for unliquidated damages, resulting from injury to the property of another, not connected with or growing out of any contractual relation, is provable in' bankruptcy. The appellants, Brown & Adams, are wool dealers in Boston, Mass., and have a warehouse there for the storage of wool which adjoins a building formerly used for a number of years by the United Button Company, bankrupt, as a factory; the two being simply separated by a party wall. Wool in storage needs to be kept at a cool and even temperature; and the charge is that, by…
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