Cases Argued and Determined in the Circuit and District Courts of the United States (Volume 6); For the Seventh Judicial Circuit. by Josiah H. Bissell

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876. Excerpt: ... In re Whipple. In re R. M. WHIPPLE. District Court.--Northern Disteiot Of Illinois.--January, 1876. In Bankruptcy. Bankruptcy Buperbedes Creditor'b Bill.--Proceedings in bankrupt cy supersede a creditor's bill in a Btate court; a receiver appointed by the state court can be compelled to deliver the property over to the assignee in bankruptcy, subject to all the rights which the creditors whom he specifically represents have obtained, and to all the priorities which they have obtained by their diligence. This was a rule to show cause why certain judgment creditors of the bankrupt should not be enjoined from proceeding under creditors' bills against the bankrupt in the state courts, and from enforcing an assignment by the debtor to the receiver appointed in such creditors' suits. On the 8th day of August, 1874, Louis Stix and others filed in the Circuit Court of Cook County an ordinary creditors' bill to enforce a judgment against Whipple previously recovered in that court. On the fourth day of.November, 1876, a receiver of the debtor's effects was appointed in that suit, and the debtor was ordered to make an assignment of his effects to such receiver. On the 10th day of July, 1875, the Chatham National Bank and others filed a similar creditors' bill in the Superior Court of Cook County, upon judgments previously recovered therein against Whipple, and upon the 5th day of November, 1875, a receiver was appointed, and the debtor was ordered to assign his effects to such receiver. On the 24th day of November, 1875, and before the debtor had executed an assignment to the receiver in either creditors' suit, In re Whipple. an involuntary petition in bankruptcy was filed against him in this court, on which he was adjudicated a bankrupt on the 6th day of December, ...