Wells v. Hartford Manilla Co.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Appeal by the receiver of the defendant from a judgment of the Superior Court in Hartford County (Rorabach, J".), in receivership proceedings, allowing a creditor’s claim for damages for the defendant’s breach of contract to receive merchandise ordered by it.
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Appeal by the receiver of the defendant from a judgment of the Superior Court in Hartford County (Rorabach, J".), in receivership proceedings, allowing a creditor’s claim for damages for the defendant’s breach of contract to receive merchandise ordered by it. December 15th, 1899, the Burgess Sulphite Fibre Company, manufacturer of paper pulp, and the Hartford Manilla Company, manufacturer of paper, entered into a written contract, known as contract A, by which the first-named company agreed to furnish, and the last-named company to receive, 1,300 tons of sulphite pulp of a designated…
1Opinion of the CourtPrentice, J.
The allowance of that portion of the claim of the Burgess Sulphite Fibre Company appealed from, is supported before us in argument upon two grounds, to wit:(1) that there was such a breach of the contracts, before the appointment of the receiver, that the claimant was then entitled to maintain an action thereon against the Manilla Company and recover full damages as for contract broken; and(2) that, the refusal of the receiver to abide by the contracts after his qualification, itself furnished a basis for the allowance.
The first contention assumes the existence of a matured claim prior to the…
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