Isaac McLean Sons Co. v. William S. Butler & Co.
District Court, D. Massachusetts
In Equity. Suit by Isaac McLean Sons Company against William S. Butler & Company, Incorporated. In the matter of Gilchrist Company. On intervening petitions of Chimney G. Shaw and Enoch E. Fletcher.
1Opinion of the Court
DODGE, Circuit Judge.
Each petitioner had a contract with the Gilchrist Company. Shaw’s was in writing, dated July 2,1912. Fletcher’s was oral, hut its terms are evidenced, as is agreed, by an unsigned draft produced in evidence. It also dates from July 2, 1912. Under these contracts the parties had acted for several weeks preceding November 7. 1912, tlie date upon which receivers were appointed in the above-entitled case of the Gilchrist Company and its assets.
On November 7, 1912, the Gilchrist Company stood charged on its own books for amounts due die petitioners on account of sales made in…
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