American Ice Co. v. Pocono Spring Water Ice Co.

J. B. McPHERSON, District Judge.

The Pocono Spring Water Ice Company (hereinafter called the Pocono Company) was a trading corporation duly chartered in 1895 by the state of Pennsylvania for the purpose, inter alia, of “cutting, storing and selling ice” in the county of Monroe. In April, 1903, its real and personal property and its corporate franchises were sold at sheriff’s sale for the sum of $50,250. The sale was held under process issued upon a first mortgage belonging vo Chester Fulmer, administrator, to whom about $29,000 of the purchase price was awarded. Out of the balance a further…