In Re Watts and Sachs
Supreme Court of the United States
ORIGINAL. HABEAS CORPUS. AND CERTIORARI. M. Zier & Company, a corporation located at New Albany, Indiana, engaged in the boiler manufacturing business, was hopelessly insolvent on and prior to December 30, 1902, and some thousands of dollars had been drawn from its treasury by the manager of its affairs for the purpose of making certain payments, of .which $3100 had been paid to Ryerson & Son, a corporation of Chicago, Illinois, and a large creditor of the Zier Company,-…
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ORIGINAL. HABEAS CORPUS. AND CERTIORARI. M. Zier & Company, a corporation located at New Albany, Indiana, engaged in the boiler manufacturing business, was hopelessly insolvent on and prior to December 30, 1902, and some thousands of dollars had been drawn from its treasury by the manager of its affairs for the purpose of making certain payments, of .which $3100 had been paid to Ryerson & Son, a corporation of Chicago, Illinois, and a large creditor of the Zier Company,- previously to December 30, and $9600 was on that day placed by M. Zier* the manager of the company, in the hands of his…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Fuller
In this matter writs of certiorari as well as of habeas corpus were issued, and the record returned to us includes the evidence below, which was duly preserved by bill of exceptions. The District Court held that a flagrant, contempt of the court in bankruptcy was committed on the twentieth of February by the taking of the property of Zier & Company out of the possession of its receiver, in whose hands, in the view of the court, it had been voluntarily placed; and ‘that defendants Watts and Sachs were so connected with that transaction as to subject them to like condemnation.
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