UNION TRUST CO. v. WILSON

No. 424.

198 U.S. 530 (1905)

UNION TRUST COMPANY, AND SECURITY WAREHOUSING COMPANY v. WILSON.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 29, 1905.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Henry S. Robbins, with whom Mr. Charles R. Holden was on the brief, for the Union Trust Company and the Security Warehousing Company.

Mr. Edwin Burritt Smith, Mr. George Packard and Mr. Vincent J. Walsh for Wilson, trustee.


MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the court.

The questions certified by the Circuit Court of Appeals arise upon the following facts, abridged from the statement submitted to us. The bankrupt, Flanders, was a wholesale leather dealer. He walled off a part of the basement of his place of business, and let it at a nominal rent to the Security Warehousing Company. There were doors to this part, with padlocks bearing...

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