In re Thomas
District Court, S.D. Georgia
In Bankruptcy. In the matter of A. A. Thomas, bankrupt. On review of order of referee dismissing petition of the Chase-Hackley Piano Company.
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In Bankruptcy. In the matter of A. A. Thomas, bankrupt. On review of order of referee dismissing petition of the Chase-Hackley Piano Company. The Chase-Hackley Piano Company filed its petition with the referee, in which it alleged that on January 27, 1914, it entered into a consignment contract with A. A. Thomas, the bankrupt, under which it shipped to him on February 2, 1914, 14 pianos, all of which were disposed of by said bankrupt before bankruptcy, except 4 (giving the numbers of same), and that said pianos were in the possession of the bankrupt at the time of his adjudication, and…
1Opinion of the CourtLambdin, District Judge
(after stating the facts as above). The cáse before me is upon a petition filed by the Chase-Hackley Piano Company for the review of an order of the referee dismissing upon general demurrer its intervention, wherein it asked that the trustee of' the bankrupt be directed to surrender to it four pianos, which had been turned over to the trustee by the bankrupt upon his adjudication. The question turns upon the point whether the contract under which the Piano Company delivered the pianos in question to the bankrupt .was a consignment contract or a contract of conditional sale. The referee held…
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