Watson v. Bonfils
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Kansas.
1Opinion of the Court
SANBORN, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from a decree in favor of the complainants, certain creditors of an'insolvent bank, which avoids liens of attaching creditors upon real estate in the state of Kansas, and impresses a trust in favor of all the creditors of the bank upon it under a general assignment which the bank made in the state of Missouri.
The only ground of the jurisdiction of the circuit court was diversity Of citizenship. One of the defendants, an attaching creditor, was a citizen of the territory of Oklahoma. A national court has no jurisdiction of a suit or controversy between…
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