Wells v. Sharp
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the District of South Dakota; James D. Elliott, Judge. In the matter of bankruptcy proceedings of the Plymouth Elevator* Company. From an order (191 Fed. 633), affirming the decision of a referee holding invalid a chattel mortgage executed by the bankrupt in favor of T. E. Wells & Co., it appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
ADAMS, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from a Judgment of the District Court for the District of South Dakota, affirming an order of *395the referee in bankruptcy awarding the proceeds of sale of two certain movable elevators located along a railroad in the state of Iowa to the trustee in bankruptcy of the Plymouth Elevator Company, for distribution among the general creditors, and not to T. E. Wells & Co., the appellant.
The facts as disclosed by the proof are these: Some. time before the elevator company was adjudicated a bankrupt its president executed a chattel mortgage purporting to convey…
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