In re Rodgers
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of Illinois. Alexander Rodgers was adjudged a bankrupt on May 8, 1901, and on that day the Chicago Title & Trust Company was appointed receiver, and subsequently trustee, of the property and estate of the bankrupt, and took possession of the estate, including the property hereinafter mentioned.
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Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of Illinois. Alexander Rodgers was adjudged a bankrupt on May 8, 1901, and on that day the Chicago Title & Trust Company was appointed receiver, and subsequently trustee, of the property and estate of the bankrupt, and took possession of the estate, including the property hereinafter mentioned. The bankrupt was a dealer in seeds, having his place of business upon the premises Nos. 220 to 230 Johnson street, in the city of Chicago. These premises, consisting of the south half of the basement, the north half of the…
1Opinion of the CourtJenkins, Circuit Judge
(after stating facts as above). The court below properly ruled that it had jurisdiction of the subject-matter. *177Its officers acquired possession of the property in dispute from the bankrupt. It is, indeed, claimed by the storage company that the writings and the facts embodied in the statement of the case show that it, and not the bankrupt, had possession prior to the bankruptcy; but the receiver had in fact acquired peaceable possession of the property, and subsequent proceedings in the bankruptcy court upon petition of the present objectors to the jurisdiction, by which the property was sold…
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