George v. Pigford
Mississippi Supreme Court
Prom the chancery court of Lamar county. Hon. Thaddeus A. Wood, Chancellor. George, appellant, was complainant or petitioner in the court below; Pigford and another, receivers, appellees, were defendants there. Prom a decree denying the prayer of the petition, the petitioner appealed to the supreme court.
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Prom the chancery court of Lamar county. Hon. Thaddeus A. Wood, Chancellor. George, appellant, was complainant or petitioner in the court below; Pigford and another, receivers, appellees, were defendants there. Prom a decree denying the prayer of the petition, the petitioner appealed to the supreme court. The Pearson Lumber Company, an insolvent corporation, and all of its property, had been placed in the hands of receivers, and Pigford and another, appellees, were the receivers. George, appellant, petitioned the chancery court for an order ■directing the receivers to pay the debt due him by…
1Opinion of the CourtAnderson, J.
Until the decision of the cases of Drennen & Co. v. Mercantile Trust & Deposit Co., 115 Ala. 592, 23 South. 164, 39 L. R. A. 623, 67 Am. St. Rep. 72, and LeHote v. Boyet, 85 Miss. 636, 38 South. 1, the doctrine of Fosdick v. Schall, 99 U. S. 235, 25 L. Ed 339, had been confined by the courts of this country exclusively to receiverships of insolvent railroad corporations. In the Drennen case the Alabama court extended the doctrine to claims of laborers against insolvent private corporations in the hands of receivers, and was followed by this court in the LeHote case, in which the claims given…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Fosdick v. SchallSupreme Court of the United States · 1879
- Drennen v. Merchantile Trust & Deposit Co.Supreme Court of Alabama · 1896
- LeHote v. BoyetMississippi Supreme Court · 1904
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