Mead v. Thompson
Supreme Court of the United States
This was a motion of Mr. A. J. Parker, for John Thompson, a bankupt, to dismiss two appeals by his creditors from a decree of the Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York, affirming a decree of discharge granted to him by the District Court.
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This was a motion of Mr. A. J. Parker, for John Thompson, a bankupt, to dismiss two appeals by his creditors from a decree of the Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York, affirming a decree of discharge granted to him by the District Court. The case was thus: The “Act to establish a uniform system of Bankruptcy throughout the United States,” approved March 2d, 1867, which gives to the District Courts exclusive original jurisdiction in matters of bankruptcy, enacts by its— “Section 2. That the several Circuit Courts . . . within and for the districts where the proceedings in…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Strong
In Morgan v. Thornhill, * and in Hall v. Allen, † it was held that no appeal lies to this court from a decree of a Circuit Court, made in the exercise of the supervisory jurisdiction conferred upon it by the second section of the Bankrupt Act of March 2d, 1867. If, then, the decree from which these appeals have been taken was made in the exercise of that jurisdiction, they are unauthorized, and they must be dismissed. And that they were thus made is very plainly exhibited in the record. The order of the District Court discharging the bankrupt, was made on the 14th day of June, 1869, and on…
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