Sharpe v. Hartman

Appeal from Multnomah: Loyal B. Stearns, Judge. This was originally a suit by Penumbra Kelly and others to wind up the affairs of the Northwest Loan and Trust Company, an alleged banking concern in the City of Portland, manipulated by one George B. Markle. The defendant Hartman was appointed receiver in the summer of eighteen hundred and ninety-three, and afterward Kate H. Morgan Sharpe intervened claiming a preference for certain gold coin delivered to the trust company for the purpose of paying a mortgage, but which it had converted to its own use. The court below disallowed the preference,…