McKay v. Hamill
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Pennsylvania. In the matter of bankruptcy proceedings of the McMillan Dumber Company. From a decree allowing the claim of Gilmore S. Hamill out of the proceeds of certain assets claimed to have been sold free from liens, W. L. McKay, the bankrupt’s trustee, appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
GRAY, Circuit Judge.
The McMillan Dumber Company, a Pennsylvania corporation, was carrying on its business in a timber tract in the state of Maryland, where it had constantly a large amount of personal property in the shape of manufactured and standing timber; the latter, by the laws of Maryland, being under certain circumstances personal property. ■ As a Pennsylvania corporation, it was subject to constant annoyance by having its property in Maryland seized under foreign attachments. It therefore procured the franchise of a Mary*13land corporation,' under the name of the Shields Run Lumber…
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