Legal Opinion

Ex Parte Schwab

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided December 16, 1878PublishedCited by 15 opinions

Motion for an order to show cause why a mandamus shall not be issued. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.

1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Waite

Certain creditors of Scott & Feibish, of Detroit, instituted proceedings in bankruptcy, March 14,1878, against the debtors in the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Michigan, and at the same time obtained a provisional order for the seizure of certain goods which, it was alleged, had been disposed of in fraud of the bankrupt law. This order was placed in the hands of Salmon S. Matthews, marshal of the district, and he, on the 29th of March, took into his possession, as the property of the bankrupts, the goods claimed by Schwab, the petitioner herein. On the 13th…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Ex Parte LoringSupreme Court of the United States · 1877

3Cited by15 opinions

  1. American Construction Co. v. Jacksonville, Tampa & Key West Railway Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1893
  2. Virginia v. PaulSupreme Court of the United States · 1893
  3. Jewell v. Davies, U.S. District JudgeCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1951
  4. Beekman Lumber Co. v. Acme Harvester Co.Supreme Court of Missouri · 1908
  5. Ex Parte PerrySupreme Court of the United States · 1879

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