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First Nat. Bank of Baltimore v. Staake

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided April 30, 1906No. 213PublishedCited by 78 opinions

■ CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT. • This writ of certiorari was allowed to review an order of-the Circuit Court of Appeals affirming a decree of the District Court in favor of Staake, as trustee in bankruptcy of the estate of Chester R. Baird, bankrupt, subrogating him to the rights of certain creditors, and authorizing him to enforce their attachment liens with like force and effect as the attaching creditors, one of which was the First…

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■ CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT. • This writ of certiorari was allowed to review an order of-the Circuit Court of Appeals affirming a decree of the District Court in favor of Staake, as trustee in bankruptcy of the estate of Chester R. Baird, bankrupt, subrogating him to the rights of certain creditors, and authorizing him to enforce their attachment liens with like force and effect as the attaching creditors, one of which was the First National Bank of Baltimore, might have done had not the bankruptcy proceedings intervened. The facts .of the case are…

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brow'n

At the time these attachments were levied, the title to' the property in question stood in the name of Baird, and the attaching creditors by their levies secured a preferential lien upon the property, not only as against Baird,. but also as against die Furnace Company, which received a deed to the property November 5, 1900, after the attachments had been levied. These attachments, however, were annulled by the filing of a petition in bankruptcy against Baird within four months after the attachments were levied, and if the case stood Upon this fact alone there could be no doubt that the…

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  1. Hewit v. Berlin MacHine WorksSupreme Court of the United States · 1904

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  2. 1 Collier bankr.cas.2d 42, Bankr. L. Rep. P 67,033 Ralph I. Selby, Trustee in Bankruptcy for the Frimberger Corporation v. Ford Motor CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1979
  3. Connell v. WalkerSupreme Court of the United States · 1934
  4. Commercial Credit Co. v. DavidsonCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1940
  5. Boyd v. Dock's Corner Associates (In Re Great Northern Forest Products, Inc.)United States Bankruptcy Court, W.D. Michigan · 1991

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