Buckingham v. McLean
Supreme Court of the United States
This was an appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Ohio, sitting as a court of equity. On the 27th of May, 1842, John Mahard, Jr., filed his peti-' tion in bankruptcy, and on the 20th of July, 1842, was declared a bankrupt. Nathaniel C. McLean was appointed his assignee in bankruptcy. John Mahard had been transacting business at Cincinnati with his brother, William Mahard, under the firm of J. & W. Mahard, ánd at New.
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This was an appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Ohio, sitting as a court of equity. On the 27th of May, 1842, John Mahard, Jr., filed his peti-' tion in bankruptcy, and on the 20th of July, 1842, was declared a bankrupt. Nathaniel C. McLean was appointed his assignee in bankruptcy. John Mahard had been transacting business at Cincinnati with his brother, William Mahard, under the firm of J. & W. Mahard, ánd at New. Orleans, under the firm of Mahard ■& Brother. On the 12th of August, 1842, William Mahard filed his petition in bankruptcy. On the 5th of…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Curtis
• Nathaniel C. McLean,’ as the assignee of John Mahard, Jr., a bankrupt, filed his bill in the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Ohio, for the purpose of relieving property of the bankrupt from incumbrances thereon, alleged to have been created in fraud of the Bankrupt act. A final decree having been entered in the cause, John S. ■ Buckingham and Mark Buckingham, parties defendant to the bill, have prosecuted this appeal.
They allege that the decree of the Circuit Court was erroneous in three particulars.
The first is, that the title of John S. Buckingham to forty-nine…
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