Legal Opinion

In re J. F. Growe Const. Co.

District Court, N.D. New York

Decided March 31, 1919PublishedCited by 1 opinion

In Bankruptcy. Involuntary proceedings against the J. F. Growe Construction Company. On application for confirmation of the report of Edwin A. King, as special master, finding that claimant, the Trus-con Steel Company, formerly the Trussed Concrete Steel Company, was entitled to certain property as against both the trustee in bankruptcy and William C. Vrooman, adverse claimant.

1Opinion of the Court

RAY, District Judge.

The J. F. Growe Construction Company, here called Construction Company for brevity, entered into a written contract with William C. Vrooman, owner of certain real estate in the city of Schenectady, on the 17th day of February, 1917, to “provide all the materials and perform all the work for the erection and completion of a two and one story commercial building to be located at 247 Dock street, Schenectady, N. Y.” The said contract contained the following provisions, viz.:

“Should the contractor at any time refuse or neglect to supply a sufficiency of properly skilled…

2Cases cited13 opinions

  1. Thompson v. FairbanksSupreme Court of the United States · 1905
  2. Central Trust Co. of Ill. v. Chicago Auditorium Assn.Supreme Court of the United States · 1916
  3. Hurley v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1909
  4. Titusville Iron Co. v. . City of New YorkNew York Court of Appeals · 1912
  5. In re ChaseCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1903

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3Cited by1 opinion

  1. Metropolitan Distributors v. Eastern Supply Co., Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Alleghany County1959

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