Prenatt v. Messenger Printing Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 108, Jan. T., 1913, by The American Type Founders’ Company, The New First National Bank of Meadville, Pa., and A. G. Phillips, Creditors of Messenger Printing Company, from order of C. P. Crawford Co., Nov. T., 1910, No. 2, In Equity, refusing to order sale of certain property in hands of receiver, in case of Fred G. Prenatt v. The Messenger Printing Company. Petition for order to sell property in hands of receiver of insolvent corporation.
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Appeal, No. 108, Jan. T., 1913, by The American Type Founders’ Company, The New First National Bank of Meadville, Pa., and A. G. Phillips, Creditors of Messenger Printing Company, from order of C. P. Crawford Co., Nov. T., 1910, No. 2, In Equity, refusing to order sale of certain property in hands of receiver, in case of Fred G. Prenatt v. The Messenger Printing Company. Petition for order to sell property in hands of receiver of insolvent corporation. Before Prather, P. J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the facts. The court refused the order. Petitioners appealed. Error assigned,…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Moschzisker,
The receiver of the defendant corporation, the Messenger Printing Company, was ordered to convert its assets into cash; certain of its creditors filed a petition in the court below, subsequently joined in by the receiver, in which they averred that among these assets the receiver had advertised “all the right of the Messenger Printing Company, as lessee, in one Cox Duplex Printing Press from the Crawford Trust Co., lessor”; that the “alleged lease is void as to the creditors of the said Printing Company”; that the transaction between the printing company and…
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