Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co v. Keokuk Northern Line Packet Co.
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the Third District; —heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Adams county; the Hon. John H. Williams, Judge, presiding. This was an attachment suit, brought by the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company, against the Keokuk Northern Line Packet Company, in the circuit court of Adams county, in this State.
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Appeal from the Appellate Court for the Third District; —heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Adams county; the Hon. John H. Williams, Judge, presiding. This was an attachment suit, brought by the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company, against the Keokuk Northern Line Packet Company, in the circuit court of Adams county, in this State. The writ of attachment was, on the 21st day of April, 1881, levied npon the barge “G-. W. Duncan, ” lying at Quincy, in said county, as the property of the defendant. Samuel C. Clubb, under the provision of section 29 of our…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Sheldon
■ We will consider the case as properly presenting by the pleadings the question of the right to interplead in the suit in the capacity of receiver.
The general doctrine that the powers of a receiver are coextensive only with the jurisdiction of the court making the appointment, and particularly that a foreign receiver should not be permitted, as against the claims of creditors resident in another State, to remove from such State the assets of the debtor, it being the policy of - every government to retain in its own hands the property of a debtor until all domestic claims against it have been…
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