Platt v. Stewart
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York
[This was a bill in equity by John H. Platt, assignee in bankruptcy of Simeon Leland & Co., against Alexander T. Stewart and others. For a hearing on the subject of compensation of sheriff, see Case No. 11,221.]
1Opinion of the Court
HUNT, Circuit Justice.
On the 24th of March, 1871, a petition in bankruptcy was presented by George F. Bellows, a creditor, praying for an adjudication of bankruptcy against Simeon Leland & Co., a firm composed of Simeon Leland, Charles Leland, and Warren Leland. On the 1st of April following, the adjudication was made as prayed for.
S. Leland & Co. had, for several years, been the keepers of the Metropolitan Hotel, in the
*853(Case No. 11,220) PLAIT city of New York, under a lease from Alexander T. Stewart, and used and owned in the said hotel a large amount of furniture and other property. At the…
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