Thomas Spacing Machine Co. v. Security Trust Co.

The Security Trust Company is receiver of the Detroit Structural Steel Company. The Thomas Spacing Machine Company, by the petition herein, asked the court to direct the receiver to return to it certain machinery sold by it to the Detroit Structural Steel Company under a claimed conditional sales contract. The original purpose of plaintiff, in asking for such return, was to obtain the machinery, sell it, give credit for payments received, and prove the amount then remaining due on the contract as a liquidated claim against the assets in the hands of the receiver. Plaintiff had before this…