Harry C. Steigman Equipment Co. v. Atlantic Hotel Co.

HASTIE, Circuit Judge.

This controversy arises in the course of the administration of an ordinary equity receivership of an insolvent New Jersey corporation, Atlantic Hotel Co., which was engaged in the operation of the Brighton Hotel in Atlantic City, New Jersey, The company was ordered into receivership by the District Court for the District of New Jersey on the complaint of a creditor. Diversity of citizenship was the sole basis of federal jurisdiction.

The present appellant, Lewis Jacobson, is a creditor to whom Atlantic admittedly owes $11,500. Jacobson attempted to establish his…