In re Lance Lumber Co.
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
In Bankruptcy. In the matter of the Ranee Rumber Company, a bankrupt. On petition for review of order of referee denying the claim of the George F. Ranee Company.
1Opinion of the Court
DICKINSON, District Judge.'
This case presents the phenomenon observed in those ingeniously devised advertising signs which show the form of different letters and in consequence convey a different meaning according to the viewpoint of the observer. The metal or other substance of which they are composed is fixed and certain. The reading varies as the position of the observer changes. The real facts in this case, as distinguished from the deductions and inferences made and drawn therefrom, are these:
J. Cameron Ranee bought of the George F. Ranee Company a stock of lumber, for which he gave his…
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