Burleigh v. Foreman

ALDRICH, District Judge.

This is an appeal in bankruptcy, and as such raises the whole case. The question here is whether a seat in the Boston Stock Exchange, a seat in the New York Stock Exchange, a seat in the Chicago Board of Trade, and certain Wheelman Company stock and notes, were the property of E. C. Hodges & Co., which company is in bankruptcy. There were other questions below, but we have only to deal with such questions as are raised by the assignment of errors-, and they all relate to the single question stated.

The discussions upon the briefs and oral arguments have taken a very…