Marbury v. Kentucky Union Land Co.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Kentucky. This was a suit by J. Kennedy Tod and others against the Kentucky Union Land Company and others to have an alleged fraudulent preference by the company declared, under the law of Kentucky, an assignment for benefit of its creditors.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Kentucky. This was a suit by J. Kennedy Tod and others against the Kentucky Union Land Company and others to have an alleged fraudulent preference by the company declared, under the law of Kentucky, an assignment for benefit of its creditors. The circuit court rendered a decree for complainants, and appointed a special commissioner to report on claims filed, and on his report a decree was entered (57 Fed. 47), from which certain creditors, who had intervened, praying that certain guaranty debts of the corporation be…
1Opinion of the Court
TAFT, Circuit Judge.
These were appeals from a decree of the circuit court of Kentucky allowing certain claims against the estate of the Kentucky Union Land Company, an insolvent corporation. The action below was begun by J. Kennedy Tod & Co., judgment creditors of the land company, who filed a bill averring that i;he land company had attempted to prefer a creditor, made co-defendant, in contemplation of insolvency, and praying that, in accordance with the statutes of Kentucky, such attempted preference might inure to the benefit of all creditors, and that the assets of the corporation should…
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