Morgan v. Thornhill
Supreme Court of the United States
On motion to dismiss an appeal from the Circuit Court from the District of Louisiana; the case being this: “An act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States,” approved March 2,1867,* and which gives to the District Courts exclusive original jurisdiction in matters of bankruptcy, authorizes them to declare corporations bankrupt upon certain proceedings had.
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On motion to dismiss an appeal from the Circuit Court from the District of Louisiana; the case being this: “An act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States,” approved March 2,1867,* and which gives to the District Courts exclusive original jurisdiction in matters of bankruptcy, authorizes them to declare corporations bankrupt upon certain proceedings had. By the 2d section of the act it is enacted : “ 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…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clifford
Exclusive original jurisdiction, in all matters and proceedings in bankruptcy, is conferred by the acts of Congress upon the District Courts, but in case of a vacancy in the office of a district judge, or in case the district judge shall, from sickness, absence, or other disability, be unable to act, the circuit judge may make all necessary rules and orders preparatory to the final hearing, and cause the same to be entered or issued, as the case may require, by the clerk of the District Court. †
Certain occurrences, during the late civil war, so crippled the resources of the Bank of Louisiana…
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