B. Kuppenheimer & Co. v. Mornin

FARIS, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff, appellant here, sued appellee, receiver, and one A. W. Steely in equity to subject certain money in the hands of the former, as receiver of the Commercial National Bank of Waterloo, Iowa, and two parcels of land of Steely, to an alleged equitable lien for the payment of a note of plaintiff, made to it by the Steely Clothing Company, under facts presently to be detailed. The court below sustained the motion of defendant Mornin to dismiss plaintiff’s bill for lack of equity, and plaintiff appealed. We shall refer to the parties, as they stood below, as plaintiff…