Union Trust Co. v. Walker
Supreme Court of the United States
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern. jDistriet of Illinois.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Cheer Justice Waite
delivered the opinion of the court.
This case differs from Union Trust Company v. Souther, ante, p. 591, only in the fact that Walker, the present intervenor and appellee, is the assignee by purchase' from- the original holders of the claims he seeks to have paid, and one of the questions certified is whether, being an assignee and not an original holder, he is entitled to payment. We have ho hesitation in answering this question in the affirmative. As was said in Fosdick v. Schall, 99 U. S. 235, 253, these creditors are paid not because they have in law a lien on the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Fosdick v. SchallSupreme Court of the United States · 1879
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- Union Trust Co. v. Southern Sawmills & Lumber Co.Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1908
- Blair v. St. Louis, H. & K. R. Co.U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Missouri · 1884
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