Legal Opinion
Harrison v. Merchants Nat. Bank
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided January 19, 1942No. 11989PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
NORDBYE, District Judge.
This is an appeal from a judgment entered for the appellee bank in a suit brought by the Trustee in Bankruptcy to set aside, as preferential, certain pledges to the bank of frozen poultry, including the amounts received by the bank from the sale of these pledged assets. The parties will be referred to as the Trustee and the Bank.
The transactions which gave rise to this controversy are essentially these: S. L. Haynes, the bankrupt, was engaged in the poultry business at Fort Smith, Arkansas. At first he confined his operations to the buying and selling of live poultry.…
2Cases cited19 opinions
- Grant v. National BankSupreme Court of the United States · 1878
- Clark v. IselinSupreme Court of the United States · 1875
- Stucky v. Masonic Savings BankSupreme Court of the United States · 1883
- Coder v. McPhersonCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1907
- McElvain v. HardestyCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1909
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3Cited by21 opinions
- Alan B. Miller, Trustee in Bankruptcy of American Ibc Corp., Bankrupt v. Wells Fargo Bank International Corp.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1976
- In the Matter of Hygrade Envelope Corp., Bankrupt. Samuel S. Baranow, Trustee in Bankruptcy of Hygrade Envelope Corp. v. Gibraltar Factors Corp.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1966
- Catherine L. Turner Fulk, Administrator of the Estate of Larry D. Turner, Deceased, and Catherine Turner Fulk v. Illinois Central Railroad CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1994
- Miller v. Wells Fargo Bank International Corp.District Court, S.D. New York · 1975
- McWilliams v. Gordon (In Re Camp Rockhill, Inc.)United States Bankruptcy Court, E.D. Pennsylvania · 1981
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