Leech v. Kay

Hammond, D. J.,

(sitting by designation.) This was a bill in equity to settle a controversy between the creditors of different firms, to which the bankrupts belonged, as to the distrition of the assets. It is in the nature of a bill of interpleader by the assignee, though, perhaps, not technically such, to settle questions of title to certain property in his possession, claimed as assets by him, which claim was disputed by creditors demanding the property as assets of a firm not bankrupt. By the decree it was adjudged that the property belonged to the bankrupt firm, and should be distributed…