Legal Opinion

Plant v. Gunn

U.S. Circuit Court for the Southern District of Georgia

Decided April 15, 1874PublishedCited by 7 opinions

In equity. Submitted for final decree upon pleadings and evidence.

1Opinion of the Court

WOODS, Circuit Judge.

In the year 1869, a firm composed of James H. Woolfolk and two other partners was adjudicated bankrupt, and Joseph E. Murray was appointed trustee of the bankrupts’ estate. Some time thereafter; certain real estate, the individual property of James H. Woolfolk, was sold by tne trustee for the sum of 85,834, and the proceeds were held by the bankrupt court, subject to its order for proper distribution. This fund is now claimed by the complainants on the one hand, and by the defendant, Daniel F. Gunn, as guardian, on the other. The prayer of the bill is that the fund may be…

2Cases cited6 opinions

  1. Watkins v. BairdMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1810
  2. Gunn v. PlantSupreme Court of the United States · 1877
  3. Vinson v. Platt & McKenzieSupreme Court of Georgia · 1857
  4. Lea v. YatesSupreme Court of Georgia · 1869
  5. Harwell v. ArmstrongSupreme Court of Georgia · 1852

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3Cited by7 opinions

  1. De Watteville v. SimsSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1914
  2. Rieman v. MorrisonIllinois Supreme Court · 1914
  3. Wolf v. Estate of TroxellMichigan Supreme Court · 1893
  4. Powell v. FlanaryCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1900
  5. Plant v. GunnU.S. Circuit Court for the Southern District of Georgia · 1881

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