Whitney-Central Trust & Savings Bank v. General Fire Extinguisher Co.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Louisiana; Rufus E. Foster, Judge. Suit by the Erie City Iron Works against the Cecilia Sugar Company, Limited, in which Jules Godchaux was appointed receiver, and the General Fire Extinguisher Company intervened. From a decree upholding the petition of the intervener over objection of the Whitney-Central Trust & Savings Bank, trustee, the Bank appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
WALKER, Circuit
This is an from a decree rendered in the suit of the Erie City Iron Works against the Cecilia Sugar Company, Limited, and others, on the intervening petition of the ap-pellee, the General Eire Extinguisher Company, which adjudged that that intervening petitioner be recognized as a creditor of the Cecilia Sugar Company, Limited, for the sum of $8,610.36, and costs of the intervention, together with the privilege of a furnisher of materials, ■superior to that of the mortgage creditor of the Sugar Company, upon the latter’s sugar house and the land upon which it stood, not…
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