City of New York v. Staten Island Midland Railway Co.

This court acquired jurisdiction of the parties and of the res upon the granting of the *696ad interim order of January 17, 1920. The jurisdiction thus acquired gave to this court power to appoint a receiver and to exercise control over the assets of the defendant, notwithstanding the principles of comity prevailing in cases of conflicting jurisdiction, providing the jurisdiction thus acquired has not been lost.

The ad interim order was granted on January seventeenth. It was, by its terms, made returnable on January twentieth. In the meantime, the Federal court, at the instance of a creditor who…