Case ID: f_149/html/0720-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

UNION NAT. BANK OF KANSAS CITY, MO., v. NEILL.
    (Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
    December 11, 1906.)
    No. 1,547.
    Bankruptcy — Review—Form op Proceeding.
    Bankruptcy Act July 1, 1898, c. 541, § 25, 30 Stat. 553 [U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 3432], provides that -appeals, as in equity cases, may be taken in bankruptcy proceedings from the courts of bankruptcy to the Circuit Court of Appeals in specified cases, including a judgment allowing or rejecting a debt or claim of $500 or more. Held that, where a decree rejected a claim for -$3Q,000 which -petitioner offered to prove against the bankrupt’s estate, petitioners remedy was by appeal, and, having obtained relief by appeal, his petition to superintend and revise should be dismissed.
    [Ed. Note. — Appeal and review in' bankruptcy cases, see In re Eggert, 43 C. C. A. 9.] .
    Petition for Revision of Proceedings of the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Texas.
    M. D. Cr'awford :(W. I. Ford and W. D. Crawford, Jr., on the brief), for petitioner.
    C. A. -Keller,’ for -respondent:
    Before' PARDEE; McCORMICK, and SHERBY, Circuit Judges.
   SHERBY, Circuit-Judge.

This is a petition to this court invoking its jurisdiction toYúperinténd and revise as matter.of law a decree of the bankruptcy' court. The decree in question is one rejecting a claim for $30,000 which petitioner offered to prove against the estate of A. F. Hardie' & Co., bankrupts. The controversy was also brought to this court by. appeal, and the .opinion in the appealed case, which has just been handed, down,.shows a full statement of the proceedings in the court below. 149 Fed. 711.

Section 25 of the bankruptcy act of 1898 (Act July 1, 1898, c. 541, 30 Stat. 553 [U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 3432]), provides that appeals, as in equity cases, may be taken in bankruptcy proceedings from the courts of bankruptcy to ..the Circuit Court of Appeals in certain specified cases;'the third being “from a judgment allowing or rejecting a debt or claim of $500 or over.” In this case the petitioner’s proper remedy was by appeal; and on appeal the decree below-has been reversed.

The petition'is. therefore denied,.and the petitioner will be taxed with the costs. / .’