PIANTA v. H. M. REICH CO.

No. 386.

77 F.2d 888 (1935)

PIANTA v. H. M. REICH CO., Inc., et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

May 20, 1935.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Prentice & Townsend, of New York City (Glenn W. Woodin, of Dunkirk, N. Y., and Robert Kelly Prentice and Myron T. Townsend, both of New York City, of counsel), for appellant.

Brunstrom & Fletcher, of Jamestown, N. Y. (William H. Fletcher, Jr., of Jamestown, N. Y., of counsel), for appellees.

Before MANTON, SWAN, and CHASE, Circuit Judges.


SWAN, Circuit Judge.

H. M. Reich Company, Inc., is a New York corporation which operated a chain of retail stores in Jamestown, N. Y., and certain cities in Western Pennsylvania. In June, 1932, it sustained a fire loss which it contended the Stuyvesant Insurance Company had insured. On August 15, 1932, Caesar Pianta, a simple contract creditor of the Reich Company, filed his bill of complaint in the court below asking for the appointment of receivers to conserve its...

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