J. P. Browder & Co. v. Hill

BURTON, Circuit Judge.

The appellants constitute a partnership which was engaged in selling groceries and other merchandise .¡at Chattanooga. The appellee is the trustee in bankruptcy of a corporation engaged 'in making iron at the same place. Appellants supplied goods to workmen in the employment of the furnace company upon orders of the company, and for the amount of such orders supplied within three months prior to adjudication in bankruptcy, remaining unpaid, filed a claim in their own name, and asserted a laborer’s lien upon the property of said bankrupt under a'Tennessee statute giving a…