Legal Opinion
In Re Butler
District Court, W.D. Virginia
Decided September 15, 1937PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PAUL, District Judge.
The question here involved is as to the effect of a judgment which the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Company, alleging itself to be a creditor of Annie L. Butler, the bankrupt, has undertaken to prove against the bankrupt in this proceeding.
In July, 1932, a suit was instituted against the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Company for damages growing out of the death of Preston J. Butler, the husband of Annie L. Butler. The suit was brought in the circuit court of Albemarle county under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act, 45 U.S.C.A. § 51 et seq., and the plaintiff in the suit was…
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