Miller, Mayhew & Co. v. Cumberland Cotton Factory
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Allegany county. This appeal was taken by the petitioners in the Court below, from an order of said Court, ( Weise'l, J.,) dismissing their petition, which prayed for the appointment of a receiver under the Acts of 1847, ch. 228, and 1852, ch. 229, to take charge of the affairs of the Cumberland Cotton Factory, and to enforce the lien to which they claimed to he entitled under said Acts, against certain personal property, which, at the time…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court for Allegany county. This appeal was taken by the petitioners in the Court below, from an order of said Court, ( Weise'l, J.,) dismissing their petition, which prayed for the appointment of a receiver under the Acts of 1847, ch. 228, and 1852, ch. 229, to take charge of the affairs of the Cumberland Cotton Factory, and to enforce the lien to which they claimed to he entitled under said Acts, against certain personal property, which, at the time said lien attached, was the property of said factory, but had been since sold to the co-defendants of said Cotton…
1Opinion of the CourtBowie, C. J.
This appeal presents the question, whether the appellants are entitled to a lien, and the remedies for its satisfaction, prescribed by the Act of 1847, ch. 228, and its supplements.
The appellants, merchants of the city of Baltimore, furnished cotton in hales to the appellees, “The Cumberland Cotton Factory," in the year 1856, amounting to §1,269.34, which being unpaid, they filed their petition in the Court "below claiming a lien, and praying . the appointment of a receiver. They charge that at the time they furnished the eitton, the company was the owner of, and in possession of *491'«certain…
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