Conklin v. United States Shipbuilding Co.
District Court, D. Maine
In Equity. This was an application on the part of the complainants to ratify, approve, and confirm within the District of Maine the appointment by the Circuit Court for the District of New Jersey of James Smith, Jr., of New Jersey, as receiver of all the assets of the United States Shipbuilding Company.
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In Equity. This was an application on the part of the complainants to ratify, approve, and confirm within the District of Maine the appointment by the Circuit Court for the District of New Jersey of James Smith, Jr., of New Jersey, as receiver of all the assets of the United States Shipbuilding Company. The application was made in this court to Judge Putnam on the 13th day of July, 3903; but Judge Putnam stating that it was his settled practice to make no" appointments of receivers, either original or ancillary, without public notice, an order to show cause was made, returnable this day, of…
1Opinion of the CourtPutnam, Circuit Judge
(orally). I think the interests of all the parties demand that I should give my views on this case now. The position is an extremely difficult one, arising from the fact that the two subsidiary corporations in Maine sold out their plants to the Shipbuilding Company, and yet continued to make contracts in their own names. It is also complicated by the more serious fact that, although the decree of the Circuit Court for the District of New Jersey, the place of domicile, in a certain way authorizes the receiver to continue the business of the United States Shipbuilding Company, yet it is…
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