Del E. Webb Hotel Co. v. Bentley

MOLLOY, Judge.

This case raises questions of priority of claims as to a stock of alcoholic liquor which was levied upon by Bentley and Weller, execution creditors of HiwayHouse Hotels, Inc. The liquor, at the time of the levy, was in possession of the appellant Del E. Webb Hotel Co.

The case was tried to the court without a jury. The facts were developed almost exclusively by stipulations dictated into the record by counsel. The stipulations reveal that Del E. Webb Hotel Co. was the mortgagee under six or seven mortgages encumbering leasehold interests in various hotels and chattels, which…