McCandless v. Furlaud

MANTON, Circuit Judge.

The defendants Máxime H. Furlaud and Kingston Corporation appeal from a decree awarding the plaintiff the sum of $1,834,-640.08 in an accounting suit for all funds or moneys coming into the hands of the defendants or any of them from the sale of bonds, notes, and shares of stock of the Duquesne Gas Corporation.

A receiver was appointed for the Duquesne Gas Corporation in the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, and he sued in the District Court for the Southern District of New York, without appointment therein as an ancillary receiver. We…