Orinoco Iron Co. v. Metzel
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Petition to Revise and Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of Ohio: Howard C. Hollister, Judge. lu the matter of the Orinoco Corporation, bankrupt. -From an order obtained by Harry V. Metzel, trustee, restraining the Orinoco Iron Company from prosecuting a suit, and ordering it to dismiss the suit, the Orinoco Iron Company appeals and files a petition to revise.
1Opinion of the Court
KNAPPEN, Circuit Judge.
This review involves the validity of an order made by the court below, sitting in bankruptcy, upon the *42petition of the trustee in bankruptcy of the Orinoco Corporation, enjoining the Orinoco Iron Company (hereafter called the Iron Company) from prosecuting a suit instituted by it in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, to enforce its alleged rights in the so-called Orinoco indemnity fund in the Treasury of tire United States. The history of that fund is briefly this:
In the year 1883 the government of the republic of Venezuela gave to one Fitzgerald a-99-year…
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