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WEST COMPANY v. LEA

No. 755.

174 U.S. 590 (1899)

19 S.Ct. 836

43 L.Ed. 1098

WEST COMPANY, v. LEA.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 22, 1899.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. W.W. Henry for appellant.

Mr. Emmett Seaton and Mr. J.H. Ralston for appellees.

MR. JUSTICE WHITE delivered the opinion of the court.

The facts stated in the certificate of the Circuit Court of Appeals are substantially as follows:

Lea Brothers & Company and two other firms filed, on December 18, 1898, a petition in the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Virginia, praying that an alleged debtor, the George M. West Company, a corporation located in Richmond, Virginia, be adjudicated a bankrupt, because...

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