Legal Opinion
Davenport v. Ralph N. Peters & Co.
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided October 12, 1967No. 11104PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WINTER, Circuit Judge:
Whether a Chicago commodities broker (Ralph N. Peters & Co., a partnership, hereafter called “Peters”) was properly before the Court and was correctly held personally liable for 1963 and 1964 personal property ad valorem taxes on cottonseed oil stored in Charlotte, Mecklen-burg County, North Carolina, when, at most, it had only a security interest in the warehouse receipts, had repledged them for loans to itself, and the receipts were in the physical possession of bank which lent money to Peters, are the questions to be decided. The district court gave judgment against…
2Cases cited17 opinions
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- Watson Industries, Inc. v. ShawSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1952
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