Crawford v. Neal
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEALS EROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF CHE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF OREGON. The court stated the case as follows : This was a bill filed by Charles A. Neal in the Circuit Court of the State of Oregon for the county of Linn, July 1, 1886, against James II.
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APPEALS EROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF CHE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF OREGON. The court stated the case as follows : This was a bill filed by Charles A. Neal in the Circuit Court of the State of Oregon for the county of Linn, July 1, 1886, against James II. Foster, John A.- Crawford, William Crawford, Ashby Pearce, John E. Baltimore, J. L. Liles, E. Walden, and W. H. .Goltra, and subsequently removed, on the application of the complainant, to the Circuit Court of the United States for the' District of Oregon. The bill was in the nature., of a creditor’s bill, seeking to set aside certain…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Fullee
If the transfers of the judgments ’to the complainant were fictitious, the plaintiffs therein continuing to be the real parties in interest, and the complainant but a nominal or color-able party, his name being used only for the purpose of jurisdiction, then the objection to the jurisdiction of the Circuit Court would be well taken; but if the transfers were absolute and the judgment creditors parted with all their interest for good consideration, then the mere fact that one of the motives of the purchase may have been to enable the purchaser to' bring suit in the'United States court, would…
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