Chamberlin v. Browning
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF'APPEALS OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. John D. Scott executed in the District of Columbia, on April 21, 1896,.a deed of voluntary assignment for the benefit of his creditors, embracing in a schedule of his assets, among other property, a life estate in certain land situated-in Montgomery County, Maryland. Horatio Browning qualified as assignee under the deed of assignment.
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APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF'APPEALS OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. John D. Scott executed in the District of Columbia, on April 21, 1896,.a deed of voluntary assignment for the benefit of his creditors, embracing in a schedule of his assets, among other property, a life estate in certain land situated-in Montgomery County, Maryland. Horatio Browning qualified as assignee under the deed of assignment. Yarious steps were taken under .the assignment, but prior as well as subsequent to the recording of the deed in Montgomery County, Maryland, certain creditors of Scott, all but one of whom resided in…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice White
Along with an argument upon the merits, counsel for the appellees have presented a motion to dismiss this appeal as to all the appellees, because of the absence of any controversy involving the requisite jurisdictional amount. This motion we find to be well taken.
The decree.appealed from affected only the defendants, who, as attaching creditors, had prosecuted actions in the Maryland court upon their claims against their debtor, Scott, and had by ancillary proceedings subjected real estate owned by their debtor' to the satisfaction of the judgments obtained in the actions referred to.
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