Babbitt v. Dutcher
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF. THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK. The Randolph-Macon Coal Company was a Missouri corporation, and was duly adjudicated a bankrupt March 26, 1907, in proceedings instituted in the District Court of the. United States, in and for the Eastern Division of the Eastern Judicial District of Missburi.
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APPEAL FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF. THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK. The Randolph-Macon Coal Company was a Missouri corporation, and was duly adjudicated a bankrupt March 26, 1907, in proceedings instituted in the District Court of the. United States, in and for the Eastern Division of the Eastern Judicial District of Missburi. Byron F. Babbitt was duly appointed trustee' in bankruptcy for the corporation May .10, ■ 1907, And duly qualified by giving bond on that day. He thereafter made demand upon the president of the company for the delivery to him of the corporate…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Fuller
Subdivision 1 of §70 of the bankruptcy act of 1898 provides that the trustee of the estate of a bankrupt shall be vested by operation of law, as of the date of the adjudication, with the title of the bankrupt (a 1) to all “ documents relating to his property,” and subdivision 13 of § 1 of the act provides that “'documents’ shall include any book, deed, or instrument in writing.”
' Respondents, as officers of the bankrupt company, asserted no adverse claim, but denied that the corporate records and stock-books were “documents relating to the property of the bankrupt,” and asserted that…
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