Legal Opinion

Babbitt v. Read

Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

Decided February 8, 1917No. 234PublishedCited by 1 opinion

Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. Action by Byron F. Babbitt, as trustee, etc., against Caroline S. Read and others, as executors, etc. From an order denying the petition of George T. Hollister to intervene as a party and apply for a writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court, he appeals.

1Per curiam

[1] This is an appeal from an order of Judge Mayer refusing to allow certain creditors of the Randolph-Macon Coal Company, a bankrupt, to intervene as parties and apply for a writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court. The case having been instituted and conducted by the trustee in bankruptcy, an officer of the District Court of the United States for the Eastern Division of the Eastern Judicial District of Missouri, which is charged with the duty of collecting and distributing 'the bankrupt estate, we think that court alone has jurisdiction to authorize other persons to intervene as parties.

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2Cited by1 opinion

  1. McAvoy v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1949

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