Southern Pacific Railroad Co. of Mexico v. White

This is an appeal by Southern Pacific Railroad Company of Mexico, hereinafter called the company, from a judgment of the superior court of Santa Cruz county denying the company’s application for preference for a claim in the sum of 25,000 pesos Mexican money, against the assets of Sonora Bank & Trust Company, hereinafter called the bank, an insolvent banking corporation, but allowing the claim as an ordinary one.

There are some five assignments of error, three of which go to the findings of fact and the other two to the law of the case. It is necessary, therefore, that we first determine the…