In re Miller

DRUMMOND, Circuit Judge.

A question of some practical importance was argued before me yesterday, which involves to some extent a conflict of jurisdiction between the state and federal courts. It is rather a peculiar case, and I am not aware that the same question has ever been presented before in any reported case.

The facts are that a petition in bankruptcy had been filed against one S. S. Miller. One of the grounds for adjudication was that he had been guilty of an act of bankruptcy in disposing of some of his goods two days before the filing of the petition, to one Baldwin, a creditor, with…