CENTRAL TRUST CO. v. LUEDERS

No. 445.

239 U.S. 11 (1915)

CENTRAL TRUST COMPANY OF ILLINOIS, AND TRUSTEE OF RHEINSTROM, v. LUEDERS.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided October 25, 1915.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Walter A. DeCamp, Mr. Dudley V. Sutphin, Mr. Leo J. Brumleve, Jr., Mr. Edward F. Peters and Mr. Paul V. Connolly for appellees, in support of the motion.

Mr. Lessing Rosenthal, Mr. Charles H. Hamill, Mr. Leo F. Wormser, Mr. Judson Harmon, Mr. Edward Colston, Mr. A.W. Goldsmith and Mr. George Hoadly for appellants, in opposition to the motion.


Memorandum opinion by MR. JUSTICE McREYNOLDS, by direction of the court.

The I. Rheinstrom & Sons Company was adjudged a bankrupt in April, 1912. Liens upon its property were claimed by appellees under a Kentucky statute which appellants (general creditors) maintained contravened the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. Overruling the Referee, the District Court allowed the liens (207 Fed. Rep...

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