Benas v. Maher

VAN VALKENBURGH, Circuit Judge.

The plant of the bankrupt, Mississippi Valley Iron Company, lying between Broadway and the Mississippi River in the City of St. Louis, Missouri, consists of four parcels of real estate, together with buildings, machinery and equipment thereon. These four parcels o.f real estate contain somewhat more than three acres, and, together with the machinery and equipment thereon, constituted the smelting and refining plant of. the bankrupt company. The machinery and equipment annexed to the land consisted of iron smelters, conveyors, carriers, cranes, railroad switches,…