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CANUTE S.S. CO. v. PITTSBURGH COAL CO.

No. 72.

263 U.S. 244 (1923)

44 S.Ct. 67

68 L.Ed. 287

CANUTE STEAMSHIP COMPANY, LTD., ET AL. v. PITTSBURGH & WEST VIRGINIA COAL COMPANY ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided November 12, 1923.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Charles R. Hickox, with whom Mr. D.M. Tibbetts was on the brief, for petitioners.

Mr. Thomas F. Barrett and Mr. Theodore Kiendl, with whom Mr. John W. Davis, Mr. Nash Rockwood, Mr. R.H. McNeill, Mr. R.R. Bennett and Mr. T.L. Jeffords were on the briefs, for respondents.

Mr. Bernard S. Barron filed a brief for the receiver in behalf of general creditors.

MR. JUSTICE SANFORD delivered the opinion of the Court.

This case involves an adjudication in bankruptcy made under an involuntary petition which was opposed by intervening creditors.

In February, 1921, three of the respondents, the Pittsburgh & West Virginia Coal Company and two other coal companies, filed in a Federal District Court in New York a petition for the involuntary bankruptcy of the Diamond Fuel Company, alleging that it was insolvent and had...

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