Foster v. Frampton-Foster Lumber Co.

Litz, Judge:

The defendant, Frampton-Foster Lumber Company, hereinafter called Foster Company, is a Delaware corporation, and prior to December 5, 1921, was engaged in the lumber business with its chief office in the city of Pittsburgh," Pennsylvania. It consumed, in its wholesale trade and the operation of a factory for the manufacture of finished wood products, large quantities of lumber which it produced and purchased from others.

On December 5, 1921, in the court of common pleas of Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, a receiver was appointed for the business and properties of the said…