Heckman v. Tammen
Appellate Court of Illinois
Interpleader.—Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook County; the Hon. Theodore Brentano, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1898.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice Sears
delivered the opinion of the court.
It is contended by counsel for appellant that the decree of the Superior Court, giving preference to the claims of appellees, as employes of the insolvent, over the claim of appellant, as a chattel mortgage lien holder, is erroneous, both because the appellees do not come within the class of persons provided for by the statute, and because their claims could not in any event be decreed to be superior to the chattel mortgage lien.
The labor claimants, appellees, were decreed a preference over the chattel mortgage, by virtue of the…
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