Stuart v. Hines & Eames
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Muscatine District Court. On tbe 28tb day of September, 1870, tbe plaintiff filed in tbe Muscatine district court bis petition, claiming that, as .tbe assignee of tbe estate and effects of Tbomas M. Isett, a bankrupt, be is tbe absolute owner for tbe uses and purposes set forth in “ An act to , establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout tbe United States,” of certain real estate in the petition particularly described, and that tbe defendants, George B.…
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Appeal from Muscatine District Court. On tbe 28tb day of September, 1870, tbe plaintiff filed in tbe Muscatine district court bis petition, claiming that, as .tbe assignee of tbe estate and effects of Tbomas M. Isett, a bankrupt, be is tbe absolute owner for tbe uses and purposes set forth in “ An act to , establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout tbe United States,” of certain real estate in the petition particularly described, and that tbe defendants, George B. ITines and David W. Eames, and Jacob Butler, as their trustee, make some claim to said premises, adverse to tbe estate…
1Opinion of the Court
Day, Ch. J.
1. Bankruptcy proceedings! jurisdiction or State courts. On and prior to August 13, 1868, Thomas H. Isett, John Kerr and Watson B. Earr were .copartners tlle name °f Isett> KelT & 0°-> doing business as bankers and brokers at the city of ]S[ew York, in the southern federal judicial district of New York. On the 31st of December, 1868, Kerr and Earr filed their petition in bankruptcy in the United States district court of that district, asking that they and their copartner, Isett, be declared bankrupts, alleging that Isett refused to join in the petition with them. On the 21th of…
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