Roberts v. Vonnegut
Indiana Court of Appeals
From Superior Court of Marion County (87,480) Joseph Collier, Judge. Proceedings on the petition of the receiver of the Mais Motor Truck Company to determine the priorities of creditors, in which William H. Roberts and others, as stockholders of the insolvent corporation, and Franklin Vonnegut and others, as creditors, intervened. Prom the judgment rendered, William H. Roberts and others appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtFelt, J.
The receiver of the Mais Motor Truck Company, filed his report showing that the property of the company had been sold and that he had in his hands for distribution to the creditors $71,000. lie also made recommendations for the allowance of several classes of claims in his report and requested the court to set them all for hearing on the question of priority .and to determine the same and order payment accordingly.
Sometime prior to the appointment of a receiver the company was in embarrassed financial condition and to prevent the appointment of a receiver and keep the company in business as a…
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