Houghton v. Burden
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT. The facts, which involve the jurisdiction of the Circuit Court of Appeals to review facts in certain cases coining from the.Bankruptcy Court arid the construction of usury laws of New York, are stated in the opinion. The Circuit Court of Appeals having found that the court below had not committed any errors of law, should have affirmed the final order of the District Court.
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APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT. The facts, which involve the jurisdiction of the Circuit Court of Appeals to review facts in certain cases coining from the.Bankruptcy Court arid the construction of usury laws of New York, are stated in the opinion. The Circuit Court of Appeals having found that the court below had not committed any errors of law, should have affirmed the final order of the District Court. Section 566, Rev. Stat.; Campbell v. United States, 224 U. S. 99; Rogers v. United States, 141 U. S. 548; Campbell v. Boyreau, 21 How. 223. Manifestly, if…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Lurton
This is an appeal from a decree determining a controversy arising in a bankruptcy proceeding. The origin of the matter was this: Canfield, the bankrupt, was a merchant in New York. He borrowed from Burden the sum of $10,000, and as security assigned to him certain book accounts, aggregating the sum of $14,000, and agreed to act as agent for Burden in their collection. Shortly afterwards he was adjudicated a bankrupt. The receiver obtained possession of the bankrupt’s books and held on to the assigned accounts and proceeded to collect them upon the claim that the contract was usurious and void…
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