LeHote v. Boyet
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the chancery court of Hancock county. How. James F. McCool, Chancellor. Boyet and one hundred and five other persons, the appellees, laborers, petitioned the chancery court in a case therein pending in which was being administered the estate of an insolvent private corporation, which had been engaged in the manufacture of lumber, showing that they were creditors of the corporation for wages due them as laborers, and praying that the receiver, LeHote, the appellant, be…
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From the chancery court of Hancock county. How. James F. McCool, Chancellor. Boyet and one hundred and five other persons, the appellees, laborers, petitioned the chancery court in a case therein pending in which was being administered the estate of an insolvent private corporation, which had been engaged in the manufacture of lumber, showing that they were creditors of the corporation for wages due them as laborers, and praying that the receiver, LeHote, the appellant, be ordered to pay them in preference to all other creditors. From a decree granting the prayer of the petition, the…
1Opinion of the CourtWhitfield, C. J.
We think this case falls squarely within the principles announced in Fosdick v. Schall, 99 U. S., 235 (25 L. ed., 339); Burnham v. Bowen, 111 U. S., 776 (4 Sup. Ct., 675; 28 L. ed., 596); and So. R. Co. v. Carnegie Steel Co., 176 U. S., 257 (20 Sup. Ct., 347; 44 L. ed., 458), all of which relate to railroads; and Drennen & Co. v. Mercantile Trust & Deposit Co., 115 Ala., 592 (23 South. Rep., 164; 39 L. R. A., 623; 67 Am. St. Rep., 72), and Dickinson v. Saunders, 120 Fed. Rep., 16 (63 C. C. A., 666), which relate to private corporations. The supreme court of Alabama, adverting to the…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Fosdick v. SchallSupreme Court of the United States · 1879
- Burnham v. BowenSupreme Court of the United States · 1884
- Southern Railway Co. v. Carnegie Steel Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1900
- Drennen v. Merchantile Trust & Deposit Co.Supreme Court of Alabama · 1896
- Dickinson v. SaundersCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1904
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