N. Hess & Brother v. Jewell
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from an order of the Circuit Court of Baltimore City (Dennis, J.), by which it was adjudged that in the distribution of the assets, under the deed of trust in this case, the claim of Kennedy, a judgment creditor, should first be paid in full, and the balance distributed among the employees of the grantor, and that the claim of Hess & Brother for rent was not entitled to priority.
1Opinion of the CourtRoberts, J.
This appeal is from an order of the Circuit Court of Baltimore City sustaining certain exceptions to the auditor’s account distributing the assets of the estate of C. L. Gwinn & Company, who on the 5th of September, 1895, executed to Ferdinand C. Dugan a deed of trust for the benefit of its creditors. The appellants, at the date of said deed, were the lessors of the premises occupied by said company, which was indebted to the appellants in the sum of $314.37 for rent in arrears and unpaid. On the day after the execution of said deed the appellants issued a distress warrant to satisfy the rent…
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