Chappell v. National Surety Co.

The appellant assigns for error his Honor’s ruling that Chappell and the Pratt Lumber Company are not estopped in this action by reason of their failure to file their claims with the special master appointed in the ancillary cause. In the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina the Pratt Lumber Company instituted a suit in equity against the T. H. Gill Company, in which intervening creditors prayed the court to adjudge that their claims were entitled to priority in the disposition of the amounts due the receiver over the claims of the defendant’s general…