White v. Ewing
Supreme Court of the United States
certificate from the circuit court of appeals for the SIXTH CIRCUIT. This case arose upon a certificate of the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, based upon the following facts: The Cardiff Coal and Iron Company, a corporation of Tennessee, becoming insolvent, a creditors’ bill was filed in the Circuit Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee by George F. Bosworth, a citizen of Massachusetts, and a judgment creditor of the company, setting forth the insolvency of the…
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certificate from the circuit court of appeals for the SIXTH CIRCUIT. This case arose upon a certificate of the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, based upon the following facts: The Cardiff Coal and Iron Company, a corporation of Tennessee, becoming insolvent, a creditors’ bill was filed in the Circuit Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee by George F. Bosworth, a citizen of Massachusetts, and a judgment creditor of the company, setting forth the insolvency of the company, the wasting Of its assets, etc., and praying for a sale, of the property, the collection of its choses in…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brown
While the receiver prayed in his petition to bring in all the debtors by bill or petition in one suit, alleging that it was so requested by creditors, in order to avoid the expense of a separate suit against each; and the bill was brought in that form against 130 defendants, who were charged to be severally indebted upon notes given for lots of land purchased from .the company, no exception was taken to the form of the bill by demurrer or otherwise, but the defendants answered, denying their liability. The question certified does not, as we understand it, demand the opinion of this court as…
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