Reed v. Vaughn
Supreme Court of Missouri
APPEAL from St. Louis Court of Common Pleas. 1. The bill is bad, because it does not thereby appear that the judgment was not a lien upon the property levied upon and advertised to be sold. Liens upon real property acquired before petition filed, were not impaired by the late Bankrupt Act. See proviso at the close of the 2nd section thereof. , ' 2. The bill does not show jurisdiction in the District Court for the District of Columbia over Reed’s case therein.
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APPEAL from St. Louis Court of Common Pleas. 1. The bill is bad, because it does not thereby appear that the judgment was not a lien upon the property levied upon and advertised to be sold. Liens upon real property acquired before petition filed, were not impaired by the late Bankrupt Act. See proviso at the close of the 2nd section thereof. , ' 2. The bill does not show jurisdiction in the District Court for the District of Columbia over Reed’s case therein. The 7th section of said Bankrupt Act provides that all petitions “ shall be had in the District Court within and for the district in…
1Opinion of the CourtNapton, J.
This was an application to a Court of Chancery for an injunction against á judgment at law. The suit was originally commenced in the Circuit Court of St. Louis, but removed to the Court of Common Pleas. The grounds upon which the injunction was claimed, were, that the petitioner had, on the 2nd March, 1843, made application to the U. S. District Court at Washington City, for the benefit of the Bankrupt Law, and that, on the 3rd July, 1843, a decree was rendered in his favor and a certificate of discharge duly granted, which he filed as part of his bill; that the judgment against which he…
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