Legal Opinion
Phillips. v. Baker
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided January 13, 1948No. 11970PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.
Appellants and appellees, except the trustee, are reclamation claimants in a stockbrokers’ bankruptcy proceeding. The issues and controversies argued below and here arise from the fact, as found by the referee and the district judge, that at the time of the bankruptcy the securities to which the reclamation claims relate were not only under pledge to Post and Flagg in New York, but were in aggregate amount “far less than the amount of the reclamation claims filed and being prosecuted.”
As to all of the appellants, except Allison, Wilbur and Green, whose claims to…
2Cases cited18 opinions
- Victoria Bank & Trust Co. v. MonteithTexas Supreme Court · 1941
- Gorman v. LittlefieldSupreme Court of the United States · 1913
- Scheuer v. Salmon Weed & Co.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1931
- In re TooleCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1921
- United States v. Keystone Watch Case Co.District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania · 1915
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3Cited by25 opinions
- M. W. O'rieley, Trustee in Bankruptcy of Woerderhoff Shoe Co., Inc. v. Endicott-Johnson CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1961
- Herbert Tepper v. Frank H. Chichester, Trustee in Bankruptcy of the Estate of Bennett-Manning Co., BankruptCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1961
- Potucek v. Cordeleria LourdesCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1962
- Boydston v. BoydstonCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1975
- Langham, Langston & Burnett v. Thomas B. Blanchard, Trustee of the Estate of Lone Star Sulphur Corporation, BankruptCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1957
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