Legal Opinion
In Re Hedgeside Distillery Corp.
District Court, N.D. California
Decided August 23, 1952No. 11327PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LEMMON, District Judge.
The trustee of a bankrupt distillery whose president is languishing in San Quentin and two bona fide claimants of opposing interests in thousands of barrels of whisky and grain spirits — these are the protagonists in this complicated forensic drama.
At stake is the ownership of merchandise valued at hundreds of thousands of dollars. The hearing before the Referee in Bankruptcy consumed thirty-six days of trial time. The testimony is reported in 2,523 pages of transcript. In addition, thousands of documents were introduced in evidence. Yet, as will be more fully developed…
2Cases cited42 opinions
- Commercial National Bank v. Canal-Louisiana Bank & Trust Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1916
- Hollywood Cleaning & Pressing Co. v. Hollywood Laundry Service, Inc.California Supreme Court · 1932
- Spear v. H. V. Greene Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1923
- Taney v. Penn National Bank of ReadingSupreme Court of the United States · 1914
- Sanders v. MagillCalifornia Supreme Court · 1937
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3Cited by5 opinions
- Matter of Michael Morasco, Bankrupt. I. Louis Kottler, Trustee-Appellee, Mercury Dry Cleaning Equipment Co. And Kaypan Dry Cleaning MacHinery Corp.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1956
- Talbot v. Fresno-Pacific Corp.California Court of Appeal · 1960
- Salitan v. MagnusNew Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division · 1960
- Anglo California National Bank of San Francisco v. Schenley Industries, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1954
- Anglo California National Bank of San Francisco v. Schenley Industries, Inc., a Corporation, Charles W. Ebnother, Trustee of the Estate of Hedgeside Distillery Corporation, Bankrupt v. Schenley Industries, Inc., a CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1954