Ex parte Eames

STORY, Circuit Justice.

The question for the decision of this court is, whether by law an injunction can be issued against Ayers, the assignee of Barnes, under the insolvent act of Massachusetts, as prayed for in the petition of Eames; and this involves the simple consideration, whether the bankrupt act of the United States of 1841, c. 9, when it came into operation in February last, sus-Xjended the operation of the insolvent act of Massachusetts, as to persons within the purview of the bankrupt act, who might afterward become insolvents. If it did, then the injunction ought to be granted; if…