Thompson v. Evans

WOODROUGH, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal by the trustee in reorganization proceedings of the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company, Debtor, from an order of the court giving the appellee’s ■claim for damages for personal injuries a preferred classification as a lien upon the property of the debtor in Arkansas paramount over the liens of the several mortgages upon said property.

The appellee based his right to preferred classification on his claim upon the paramount lien statutes of Arkansas, of which the pertinent provisions, enacted in 1899, are sections 11131, 11132, and 11133 of Pope’s Digest…