Wood v. National Corp.
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
In Equity. Suit by Eyndoti D. Wood against the National Corporation. On motion by the Merchants’ Warehouse Company to dismiss ancillary hill filed against it by J. Howard Reber as receiver.
1Opinion of the Court
DICKINSON, District Judge.
It is unnecessary to follow the analysis of the solicitor for the defendant of the grounds upon which this motion is based, for the'reason that the plaintiff concedes that the bill should be dismissed unless the proposition of law upon which he relies is sound. The proposition, stated most broadly, is that, *792when a court of equity has taken under its care the assets and affairs of the defendant in a receivership bill, it may, through the medium of an ancillary bill, take jurisdiction to determine anything which pertains to or affects in any way the assets which are…
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