Bullock Electric Manufacturing Co. v. Lehigh Valley Traction Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 228, Jan. T., 1911, by plaintiff, from judgment of C. P. Lehigh Co., June Term, 1903, No. 16, for defendant on case tried by the court without a jury in suit of Bullock Electric Manufacturing Co. v. Lehigh Valley Traction Company and R. E. Wright, et al., receivers, and R. E. Wright, a bondholder, defendants, intervening. Replevin for four electric generators. Before Heydt, P. J., specially presiding, without a jury.
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Appeal, No. 228, Jan. T., 1911, by plaintiff, from judgment of C. P. Lehigh Co., June Term, 1903, No. 16, for defendant on case tried by the court without a jury in suit of Bullock Electric Manufacturing Co. v. Lehigh Valley Traction Company and R. E. Wright, et al., receivers, and R. E. Wright, a bondholder, defendants, intervening. Replevin for four electric generators. Before Heydt, P. J., specially presiding, without a jury. The facts appear in the opinion of the Supreme Court. The portion of the opinion of Heydt, P. J., relating to the intervention of the receivers was as follows: The…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Elkin,
For the purpose of determining the principal and underlying question raised by this appeal, the case at bar may be considered a controversy between the holders of bonds secured by a first mortgage on the lines, property and franchises of the traction company, and a manufacturing corporation that sold four generators to the traction company to be installed in its power plant and used to generate electric current. The sale was made under the terms of a contract in writing which the court below held, and the parties concede, constitutes a conditional sale. This view…
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