Jennings v. Philadelphia & R. R. Co.

Nixon,' J.

This case comes up on a rule to show cause why the receivers of the Philadelphia & Beading Bailroad Company should not be required to pay the judgment recovered March 29, 1884, by the above-named plaintiff, out of the funds of the said company in their hands as receivers. On the service of the rule the receivers made return (1) that they had no moneys in their hands which were applicable to the payment of the judgment; and (2) that the proceedings under which they became receivers were instituted in the circuit court of the United States in the Eastern district of Pennsylvania; that…