Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co. v. Baldwin

WOODROUGH, Circuit Judge.

The controversies in this case follow upon the failure and bankruptcy of Vernon F. Kuhlmann, or Kuhlman, formerly of Deshler, Thayer County, Nebraska, who carried on a business of buying and selling livestock at that town and others within the neighboring territory for many years, but failed to pay for a number of cattle he bought for which he gave unpaid checks to various persons during the year beginning August 31, 1951.

Prior to that date he had become the sole owner and operator of a livestock sale market at Deshler, known as Desh-ler Sales Barn, which, after some…