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IN 1 HF.
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
FOR IHF
NINTH CIIU UlT
CHARLES C. MOORE, it al.,
I nicrvctiors and Appellants
VS. ) ^^- ^353-
- DONAHOO, FTAL,
Appellees.
BRIEF FOR CERTAIN SUPPLY AND LABOR
CLAIMANTS.
The followinu: brief is presented on behalf of various
supply and labor claimants of the Ocean Shore Railway
Company, whose claims were established as preferential
by the decree appealed from. The record shows that
the materials and services covered by these claims were
in every instance "necessary to the business of the Ocean
Shore Railway Company as a carrier of freight and pas-
sengers, and to the public service," and were "required
to keep it a going concern." (Tr., p. 27.) All were in-
curred within six months before the appointment of the
receiver and all "constituted current and ordinary debts
of the Company incurred in its normal operation."
(Tr., p. 25.)
At the hearing before the Master, we relied upon the
following propositions:
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