Peckett v. Wood
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the District of New Jersey; Thos. G. Haight, Judge. Suit in equity by Charles R. Wood and others against-the Elorence Iron Works. From an order allowing claims of Walter Wood and the estate of Stuart Wood, Leonard Peckett, Edward L. Herndon, and W. Howard Ramsay, as a creditors’ committee, appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
BUFFINGTON, Circuit Judge.
In the matter of the receivership of the Florence Iron Works the court below entered a decree confirming the .master’s report and findings that the claims of Walter Wood for $461,255.88, of R. Francis Wood for $64,664.86, and of Stuart Wood’s executors for $101,552.50, “be allowed and added to the list of claims heretofore approved by the receiver and confirmed by the court.” Assuming, but without deciding, such decree was one from which an appeal lay to this court, all parties have acquiesced in that view, and a committee of the creditors of the Florence Iron…
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