Cowan v. Pennsylvania Plate Glass Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 143, Oct. T., 1897, by Exchange Bank of Wheeling, from decree of C. P. Westmoreland Co., No. 265, on bill in equity. Bill in equity for a receiver. Exceptions to auditor’s report distributing money in the hands of the receiver. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court.
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Appeal, No. 143, Oct. T., 1897, by Exchange Bank of Wheeling, from decree of C. P. Westmoreland Co., No. 265, on bill in equity. Bill in equity for a receiver. Exceptions to auditor’s report distributing money in the hands of the receiver. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court. Errors assigned were (1) in decreeing that the judgment of the Exchange Bank of Wheeling recovered in the circuit court of the United States for the western district of Pennsylvania was not a lien upon the property of the Pennsylvania Plate Glass Company; (2) the decree of the court which was as follows…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Me. Justice Dean,
The Pennsylvania Plate Glass Company in August, 1890, was chartered under the general corporation act of 1874, for the manufacture of glass near Irwin, Westmoreland County. The capital stock was $1,000,000. It owned in fee a tract of land of about twenty-eight acres on which it erected an extensive manufactory, costing about $850,000, wherein it commenced operations, and continued them until March 19, 1894, when these plaintiffs, for themselves and other stockholders and creditors, filed a bill for a decree of insolvency and the appointment of a receiver. The…
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