In the Matter of Louis K. Liggett Company

Full title: In the Matter of LOUIS K. LIGGETT COMPANY, Bankrupt. Roy A. Heymann…

Court: Circuit Court of Appeals, Second Circuit

Date published: Oct 15, 1934

73 F.2d 1003 (2d Cir. 1934)

Opinion

No. 27.

October 15, 1934.

Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.

Order ( 7 F. Supp. 855) reversed.

Betten Dannenberg, of New York City (Philip Betten and Benjamin T. Dannenberg, both of New York City, and Edgar G. Braun, of Detroit, Mich., of counsel), for claimant.

Milbank, Tweed, Hope Webb, of New York City (Walter E. Hope and H. Struve Hensel, both of New York City, of counsel), for trustees.

Before MANTON, L. HAND, and SWAN, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM.

Reversed on the authority of Manhattan Properties Co. v. Irving Trust Co., 291 U.S. 320, 54 S. Ct. 385, 78 L. Ed. 824; In re F. W. Grand 5-10-25 Cent Stores, Inc. (Possart et al. v. Irving Trust Co.), 69 F.2d 807 (C.C.A.).

MANTON, Circuit Judge (dissenting).

I dissent, believing that the case of Manhattan Properties Co. v. Irving Trust Co., 291 U.S. 320, 54 S. Ct. 385, 78 L. Ed. 824, does not change the rule announced by us in Re Metropolitan Chain Stores Co. (C.C.A.) 66 F.2d 485.