Link v. Receivers of Seaboard Air Line Ry. Co.

PARKER, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from an order in the Seaboard Air Line Railway receivership ease disallowing priority in payment to a judgment obtained against the railway company in the courts of South Carolina on account of a personal injury sustained in that state. The question involved is whether the limitation prescribed by a statute giving judgments for personal injuries priority of lien over railroad mortgages, which was in force at the time of the injury, is applicable so as to defeat the claim of priority, or whether appellant is entitled to the benefit of a statute passed,…