Sargent v. Helton
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OE THE UNITED STATES FOE THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF ALABAMA. Dana Sargent, one of the appellants, was the sole plaintiff at the commencement of the suit in the Circuit Court.
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APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OE THE UNITED STATES FOE THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF ALABAMA. Dana Sargent, one of the appellants, was the sole plaintiff at the commencement of the suit in the Circuit Court. His bill was filed July 10,1879. It alleged in substance as follows: The Pensacola Lumber Company, a corporation of the State of New York, was, on February 27, 1875, adjudicated bankrupt by the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York, and on the 18th day of May following a deed of assignment of all the property of the bankrupt was executed to-the assignee in…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Woods
delivered the opinion of the court. -He stated the facts in the language above reported, and continued:
Section 720., of the Revised Statutes of the United States provides “ that the writ of injunction shall not be granted.by any court of the United States -to stay proceedings in any court of a State, except in cases where such injunction may be authorized by any law relating to proceedings in bankruptcy.”
The sole purpose of the bill in this case was to restrain the execution of an order of the Circuit Court for the county of Escambia, a court of the State of Alabama, and no relief which, upon…
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