Steevens v. Earles

The only question in any of these cases relates to the right of a bankrupt to the surplus of his estate not exhausted by the proceedings in bankruptcy, and remaining after those proceedings have terminated, and all costs and expenses are paid, and the assignee is discharged, and all debts are extinguished.

Plaintiffs sue as heirs at law, to recover from the various defendants in these cases, who claim neither under the. bankrupt nor under his assignees, certain lands once belonging to Frederick H. Steevens, who became a bankrupt and was discharged on his own petition in 1842. No creditors…