New Orleans Terminal Co. v. Hanson
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Tennessee. In Equity. Appeal by the New Orleans Terminal Company from a decree in a creditors’ suit against the Gulf Compress Company denying it a preference claimed.
1Opinion of the Court
KNAPPEN, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court denying the lien or preference claimed by appellant (hereinafter called the claimant) for the unpaid purchase price of certain compresses and other property, sought to be enforced by intervening petition in the receivership proceedings hereafter referred to. The material facts are these:
The claimant, a Louisiana corporation doing business at New Orleans in that state, on September 6, 1907, sold to the Gulf Compress Company, which is an Alabama corporation having its general offices in Memphis, Tenn., two cotton…
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