LeHote v. Boyet

Citations

• 85 Miss. 636

Syllabus

<p>Corporations. Insolvency. Receiver. Laborers’ wages. Preference claims.</p> <p>Where a receiver is appointed for an insolvent corporation, whether public or private, and its entire property is placed in his hands, he will be required to pay the wages of laborers who rendered service shortly before' his appointment and whose labor was necessary to continue the business of the corporation and preserve its property, in preference to both ordinary and mortgage creditors.</p>