Legal Opinion
Ikebe v. Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co.
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided January 16, 1941No. Nos. 7436, 7454, 7456PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
JONES, Circuit Judge.
The question presented by these appeals is whether the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company assumed liability for the payment of certain annuities bequeathed by the will of Thomas E. Mitten, deceased. The annuitants pressed such claims in the proceeding below for the reorganization of the Transit Company, a debtor. The District Court held that the asserted liability did not exist and directed that the debtor “discontinue payments of the sums of money bequeathed as annuities or legacies by the will of Thomas E. Mitten, deceased”. From that order, the petitioning annuitants…
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