Temple v. Glasgow
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Virginia. On September 17, 1892, the Connecticut River Banking Company, a corporation of Connecticut, filed its bill of complaint in the circuit court of the United States for the Western district of Virginia against the Rockbridge Company, ;a corporation of Virginia, and against the Manhattan Trust Company, a corporation of New York, and F. T. Glasgow, a citizen of Virginia, trustees, alleging…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Virginia. On September 17, 1892, the Connecticut River Banking Company, a corporation of Connecticut, filed its bill of complaint in the circuit court of the United States for the Western district of Virginia against the Rockbridge Company, ;a corporation of Virginia, and against the Manhattan Trust Company, a corporation of New York, and F. T. Glasgow, a citizen of Virginia, trustees, alleging that it held, as collateral security for a debt due to it by the Rockbridge Company, certain past-due and unpaid first…
1Opinion of the CourtMorris, District Judge
(after stating the facts as above). The contention of the appellants that their judgments against the Rockbridge Company, which bear date as of March 1, 1894, are entitled to priority as liens on the company’s real estate not included in the mortgage, is based, in the first place, upon the alleged want of jurisdiction in the court to appoint 'a receiver of any of the company’s property, except that upon which the complainants, by virtue of their mortgage bonds, had a lien. It is undoubtedly true, and has been decided in many cases, that general creditors of either an individual or a…
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