Stokes v. Williams
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the District of New jersey; Thos. G. Haight, Judge. Howard H. Williams and Albert C. Wall, receivers of the Standard Plunger Elevator Company, and others, obtained a decree authorizing them to sell at private sale all the assets and rights of the corporation, and W. E. D. Stokes and others appeal.
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Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the District of New jersey; Thos. G. Haight, Judge. Howard H. Williams and Albert C. Wall, receivers of the Standard Plunger Elevator Company, and others, obtained a decree authorizing them to sell at private sale all the assets and rights of the corporation, and W. E. D. Stokes and others appeal. Tiiis is an appeal from a decree of the District Court of the United States for the District of New Jersey, authorizing the receivers of tlie Standard X'lunger Elevator Company to accept an offer to purchase, at private sale, all the assets and…
1Opinion of the CourtWoolley, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as above). [1] This appeal was met by a motion to dismiss. The motion was made upon the contention that the decree appealed from was not final, in that the amount of dividends to inure to purchasing creditors from the sale made thereunder, as well as controversies certain to arise, remained to be determined by other and subsequent decrees, and that until so determined, no appeal can properly lie to this court. The contention was based upon the idea that the finality required by law upon which to predicate an appeal from an order or an act of a court, is the final or…
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