Security Trust & Sav. Bank v. Wm. R. Staats Co.
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of California; Oscar A. Trippet, Judge. Suit in equity by the Security Trust & Savings Bank, trustee in bankruptcy of. the Fielding J. Stilson Company, against the William R. Staats Company and the Title Insurance & Trust Company. Decree for defendants, and complainant appeals.
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Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of California; Oscar A. Trippet, Judge. Suit in equity by the Security Trust & Savings Bank, trustee in bankruptcy of. the Fielding J. Stilson Company, against the William R. Staats Company and the Title Insurance & Trust Company. Decree for defendants, and complainant appeals. This is a suit in equity between the Security Trust & Savings Bank, a corporation, trustee in bankruptcy of the estate of Fielding J. Stilson Company, a bankrupt corporation, and William R. Staats Company and Title Insurance & Trust Company,…
1Opinion of the CourtHunt, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as above). The appellant contends that the court erred in sustaining the exceptions of the defendants: To the finding of the special master that the deed of trust operated to enable the Staats Company to obtain a preference; to the finding that the deed of trust was executed to secure an antecedent debt, and that the transaction between the Stilson Company, bankrupt, and the Staats Company, was not a single transaction; to the finding that the 60 shares of stock had been hypothecated by the bankrupt prior to the execution of the trust deed; and to the finding that the…
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