Prenatt v. Messenger Printing Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 315, Jan. T., 1914, by The American Type Founders Company and The New First National Bank of Meadville, Pa., Creditors of Messenger Printing Company, from decree of C. P. Cráwford Co., Nov. T., 1910, No. 2, in Equity, sustaining exceptions to report of auditor in case of Fred Gr. Prenatt v. The Messenger Printing Company. Bill in equity for the appointment of a receiver. Exceptions to the report of J. P. Colter, Esq., auditor.
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Appeal, No. 315, Jan. T., 1914, by The American Type Founders Company and The New First National Bank of Meadville, Pa., Creditors of Messenger Printing Company, from decree of C. P. Cráwford Co., Nov. T., 1910, No. 2, in Equity, sustaining exceptions to report of auditor in case of Fred Gr. Prenatt v. The Messenger Printing Company. Bill in equity for the appointment of a receiver. Exceptions to the report of J. P. Colter, Esq., auditor. Before Prather, P. J. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court and in Prenatt v. Messenger Printing Co. (No. 1), 250 Pa. 402. The court…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Moschzisker,
The court below sustained certain exceptions to the report of the auditor to whom the accounts of the receiver for the defendant corporation were referred, and decreed that two claimants, who, respectively, were lessors to the defendant company of a certain typesetting machine and a printing press, should be paid in full for rentals accruing during the receivership and share pro rata with other creditors on their claim for rentals prior thereto; this is assigned for,error.
When it was proved by experience that the defendant company could not be made a…
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- Prenatt v. Messenger Printing Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1915
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