Lyons-Thomas Hardware Co. v. Perry Stove Manufacturing Co.
Texas Supreme Court
Error to Court of Civil Appeals for Fifth District, in an appeal from Lamar County. This suit was originally brought November 20, 1889, by appellees, Perry Stove Manufacturing Company, and six other simple contract creditors of the Lyons-Tliomas Hardware Company, in what they termed “a creditor’s bill,” setting up that the said hardware company-was an insolvent private corporation, and ¡had, on ¡November 9, 1889, executed to L. P. Harrison, trustee, three mortgages to secure…
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Error to Court of Civil Appeals for Fifth District, in an appeal from Lamar County. This suit was originally brought November 20, 1889, by appellees, Perry Stove Manufacturing Company, and six other simple contract creditors of the Lyons-Tliomas Hardware Company, in what they termed “a creditor’s bill,” setting up that the said hardware company-was an insolvent private corporation, and ¡had, on ¡November 9, 1889, executed to L. P. Harrison, trustee, three mortgages to secure certain debts covering all of its property and giving preferences; that the ■Baker Wire Company had sequestered a part…
1Opinion of the Court
BROWN, Associate Justice.
—The District Court found conclusions of fact, which were adopted by the Court of Civil Appeals, and are in substance as follows:
The Lyons-Thomas Hardware Company, a private corporation organized under the laws of Texas, being insolvent, on the 9th day of November, 1889, made three deeds of trust, by which it conveyed to L. P. Harrison all its property and assets of every kind, to secure certain named creditors, L. P. Harrison, the Farmers and Merchants Bank of Paris, the Exchange Bank of Paris, and others who are defendants, being embraced in the deeds, as well as…
2Cases cited14 opinions
- Kerrison v. StewartSupreme Court of the United States · 1876
- Hammock v. Loan & Trust Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1882
- Lyons-Thomas Hardware Co. v. Perry Stove Manufacturing Co.Texas Supreme Court · 1893
- Lewis v. AlexanderTexas Supreme Court · 1879
- Ebell v. BursingerTexas Supreme Court · 1888
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