Moran v. Sturges
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OE THE STATE OE NEW- YORK. The Schuyler Steam Tow-Boat Company was a corporation organized under the laws of New York.
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OE THE STATE OE NEW- YORK. The Schuyler Steam Tow-Boat Company was a corporation organized under the laws of New York. On July 31,1891, the trustees of the company filed a petition in the Supreme Court of the State of New York at Albany County, at chambers, for the voluntary dissolution of the company under §§ 2419 and 2423 of the Code of Civil Procedure of that State, and in their petition prayed for the appointment of a temporary receiver under § 2423 as amended, whose powers- and duties were specified in § 1788. (Code Civ. Proc. N. Y. 1892, pp. 643, 835, 836.)…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Fullee
This court declined to issue the writ of prohibition to the District- Court of the United States for the Eastern District of New York from proceeding upon these libels because the .alleged want of jurisdiction in the District Court over the vessels was in course of litigation in that court on due process. In re Fassett, Petitioner, 142 U. S. 479, 484. The state court upon the receiver’s application granted in effect the prohibition which we denied, and restrained libellants from prosecuting their libels. The question is whether it was within the power of the state court to do this ?
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