Insurance Co. v. Comstock
Supreme Court of the United States
On motion to dismiss a writ of error tq the Circuit Court for the Northern District of Illinois; the'case being thus: The Bankrupt Act of 1867, which by its terms applies to all moneyed, business, or commercial corporations as well as to individuals, gives to the District Courts of the Uuited.
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On motion to dismiss a writ of error tq the Circuit Court for the Northern District of Illinois; the'case being thus: The Bankrupt Act of 1867, which by its terms applies to all moneyed, business, or commercial corporations as well as to individuals, gives to the District Courts of the Uuited. States original jurisdiction in all matters and proceedings in bankruptcy. • It enacts by its— • “Section 2. That the several Circuit Courts of the United States within and for the districts where the proceedings in bankruptcy shall be pending, shall have a general superintendence and jurisdiction of…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clifford
Moneyed, business, and commercial' corporations, are as much within the provisions of the Bankrupt Act as unincorporated individuals or associations, and all the provisions of the act forbidding preferences and fraudulent conveyances are as applicable to such debtors, if insolvent, as to any other insolvent debtors falling within.those provisions, and the saíne acts which render individual debtors liable to be adjudged bankrupts on the petition of their creditors, if committed by such a corporation which is insolvent, will warrant the creditors of the same to institute proceedings for that…
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