In re J. C. Winship Co.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Northern District'of Illinois. A petition in involuntary bankruptcy against the J. C. Winship Company, a corporation, was filed November 1, 1901, and on the same day a receiver was appointed, who took possession of the property of the bankrupt, including three printing presses, the subject of contention here.
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Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Northern District'of Illinois. A petition in involuntary bankruptcy against the J. C. Winship Company, a corporation, was filed November 1, 1901, and on the same day a receiver was appointed, who took possession of the property of the bankrupt, including three printing presses, the subject of contention here. On November 7, 1901, Walter Scott & Co., the present appellant, petitioned the court that the receiver return to it the three printing presses which had been delivered by it into the possession of the J. C. Winship Company under…
1Opinion of the CourtJenkins, Circuit Judge
The questions argued at the bar or suggested by the record are interesting, and of moment to the profession and to the administra*95tion of the bankruptcy law. These are: (i) Whether the lease, so-called, of the printing presses, can be impugned, and shown to be in effect but a chattel mortgage. (2) Whether, if to be considered a chattel mortgage, and void as to creditors for failure to record it, the transaction may be attacked by any one other than a purchaser in good, faith or an execution or attaching creditor. (3) Whether an adjudication of bankruptcy is such a sequestration of the property…
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