Legal Opinion
In Re Bresnan
District Court, D. Maryland
Decided October 28, 1930No. 5155PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WILLIAM C. COLEMAN, District Judge.
This ease arises upon a petition of the trustee in bankruptcy filed pursuant to the provisions of the Bankruptcy Act (11 USCA § 11, subsee. 10) and General Order 27 (11 USCA § 53), for a review of the findings of the referee allowing the claim of a creditor to certain funds, in opposition to the claim of the Trustee in bankruptcy.
In a proceeding of this kind the scope of the court’s power to review is very broad. The court is not bound by the referee’s findings of fact any more than it is bound by his conclusions of law. It is permissible for the court to…
2Cases cited26 opinions
- Bailey v. Baker Ice MacHine Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1915
- Kuhn v. Fairmont Coal Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1910
- Arkansas Valley Smelting Co. v. Belden Mining Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1888
- Portuguese-American Bank of San Francisco v. WellesSupreme Court of the United States · 1916
- Lambert v. MorganCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1909
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3Cited by8 opinions
- Cumberland Portland Cement Co. v. Reconstruction Finance Corp.District Court, E.D. Tennessee · 1953
- Brainard v. Commissioner of Internal RevenueCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1937
- McLaughlin v. New England Telephone & Telegraph Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1963
- In Re Talbot Canning CorporationDistrict Court, D. Maryland · 1940
- In re La BelleDistrict Court, S.D. California · 1953
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