Virginia Book Co. v. Sites
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Virginia, at Roanoke; Henry C. McDowell, Judge. In the matter of C. H. Magee, bankrupt; D. P. Sites, trustee. Prom a decree confirming an order of the referee requiring the Virginia Book Company, Incorporated, to surrender property, that company appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
KNAPP, Circuit Judge.
On September 8, 1916, C. H. Magee, a bookseller and stationer of Salem, Va., filed his petition in voluntary bankruptcy, and adjudication followed the next day. He had been for a year or more the local agent of appellant for the sale on commission of schoolbooks consigned to him under an unrecorded contract by which the legal title of the books remained in the book company. Two days before his petition was filed, and when appellant had reasonable cause to believq that Magee was insolvent, it canceled his agency and repossessed itself of such of its books as he then had on…
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