In re Lipke

BROWN, District Judge.

This is a motion to vacate an order in the nature of a writ of ne exeat issued on the 6th of January, 1900, under which the bankrupts were arrested and held to hail in the sum of $1,500, conditioned that they should not depart from the jurisdiction of the court and would obey its lawful orders and decrees. The writ is not in the form of the warrant provided for in section 9b of the bankrupt act, requiring the defendants to be brought before the court for examination, but in the usual form of the writ issued in equity under section 717, Rev. St. U. S. Upon the arrest of…