World's Industrial & Cotton Centennial Exposition v. North, Central & South American Exposition

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Bermudez, C. J.

This controversy involves questions of conflicting privileges claimed by a vendor and by laborers, etc.

The suit is brought by the plaintiff to recover of the defendant a balance due, as the price of certain buildings, machinery and other effects put on the Exposition grounds in this city by plaintiff, as lessee or occupant.

Pendente lite an order was obtained for the sale of those effects, which had been sequestered.

A number of parties claiming to have kept the buildings and machinery in repair and preserved them from destruction,…