Maryland Finance Corp. v. Duvall

WADDILL, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from an order of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, at Baltimore, entered on the 30th day of March, 1922, in the bankruptcy proceedings of the National Consumers Exchange, Incorporated, whereby the court denied to the appellant herein, the petitioner in said bankruptcy proceedings, the right asserted in said petition to a preferred lien upon the assets of the bankrupt’s estate, because of the invalidity of the mortgage creating such lien, and dismissed the petition. The following is a succinct and brief summary of the facts…