Crawford v. Seattle, Renton & Southern Railway Co.
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from an order of the superior court for King county, Frater, J., entered January 19, 1916, adjudging the priority of claims in a receivership, after a hearing before the court.
1Opinion of the CourtMount, J.
This appeal is prosecuted from an order of the lower court fixing the priority of claims in a receivership.
The facts are in substance as follows: The appellant is a creditor of the Seattle, Renton & Southern Railway Company. He obtained a judgment for personal injuries against that company on the 15th day of March, 1913. In April of that year, he filed with the receivers a claim for the amount of the judgment. In this claim it was stated that, in the month of December, 1911, the road was taken possession of by officials acting for the bondholders of the railway company; that, in January,…
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