White v. Ewing
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern Division of the Eastern District of Tennessee. This was an ancillary suit, instituted by Boyd Ewing, as receiver in the main cause of Bosworth against the Cardiff Coal & Iron Company, against J. H. White and numerous others. From the decree entered, both parties appeal.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern Division of the Eastern District of Tennessee. This was an ancillary suit, instituted by Boyd Ewing, as receiver in the main cause of Bosworth against the Cardiff Coal & Iron Company, against J. H. White and numerous others. From the decree entered, both parties appeal. The circuit court of appeals reserves the question of the jurisdiction of the circuit court for decision by the supreme court upon certificate.
1Per curiam
The Cardiff Coal & Iron Company was a corporation organized under the laws of Tennessee, with power to purchase real estate, to establish manufacturing plants thereon, to improve and subdivide the land, and to sell the same in lots. It sold many lots to different persons, more than 100 in all, and took their notes in part payment of the purchase price therefor. It became financially embarrassed, and the improvements begun by it were abandoned. Bosworth, a citizen of Massachusetts and a judgment creditor in the sum of $2,300, filed a general creditors’ bill in the court below against the…
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