Throckmorton v. Hickman
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the District of New Jersey; Charles D. Uynch, Judge. Suit by ReRoy S. Throckmorton, trustee of the American Box Company, bankrupt, against J. Parker Hickman and others. From a decree dismissing the bill, plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
WOORREY, Circuit Judge.
This is a plenary action brought by the trustee of a bankrupt corporation to set aside a chattel mortgage of the corporation, to vacate a sale thereunder and to recover, free from lien, the chattels covered by the mortgage. The same matter had been before the Court of Chancery of the State of New Jersey in an action instituted by another plaintiff against the same defendants. The District Court, holding that the cause of action was res judicata, dismissed the bill.
The plaintiff, by this appeal, brings here for review the one ground on which the decree was based. This…
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