Kemp Lumber Co. v. Howard
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Petition to Revise Order of the District Court of the United' States for the District of New Mexico; Wm. H. Pope, Judge. Petition by'the Kemp Dumber Company,-a corporation, against Thomas Howard to revise an order of the District Court in bankruptcy.
1Opinion of the Court
SANBORN, Circuit Judge.
[1-4] By a petition to revise an order of the District Court in bankruptcy this case presents the question whether the proceeds of the sale of property of a bankrupt in New Mexico, subject to mechanic’s liens of .the same class recorded at different times, should be distributed to the lienors pro rata, or in the order of the filing of their respective claims for liens for record. The answer is found in the statutes of New Mexico as they stood in 1914, when the liens accrued and the claims for them were filed. The codification of the laws of New Mexico of 1915 provides…
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