Birmingham age-herald., 1895-06-04
CATCHING UP WITH DOCKET Satisfactory Progress of the Fed
 eral Supreme Court, II ADJOURNED YESTERDAY
Statistics of Cases Disposed of and Thgss That
 Go Over.
THE NOTABLE CASES DECIDED THIS TERM
diff Coal and Iron Company of Ten neasee Figures, Decided by
 Justice Brown.

I
 enteen cases disposed of by the United
 States supreme court today, and then it
 adjourned for the term. It will assemble again for the term of 1895 on the second
 Monday of October. The record of de-
 cisions today was remarkable for the
 unusually large number of land cases
 1t contained, MT. Justice Brewer reading
 the opinions in the most of them.
 A review of the work accomplished by
 the sittings of the supreme court at the
 term ended today shows that it is mak I ing substantial progress toward the time
 when it shall have caught up with the business on the docket. The docket of
 original cases brought into court con-
 tained at the beginning of this term, the, 1 second Monday of last October, eight
 cases. During the term eight additional
 ones were docketed, making a total of
 sixteen in all. Of these nine have been l disposed of, seven remaining to be en- tered upon the docket of 1895.
 1 The appellate docket, the one in which l the public is most interested, had TIA 1 cases last October, and 332 have since 1 been added, making a total of 1046 for 1 the whole term. Of these there were 1 disposed of, by opinion of the court, by dismissal under the rules and by dis l missal by the appellants, 406 leaving $40 I to be carried over to the next term, l gain of seventyfour. When the court adjourned today there were thirty-eight l cases still pending under advisement, having been argued and submitted to 1 the court for it's determination. These include a number of cases of general l interest and importance among them being the following
 The two cases of the United States against the Western Union Telegraph company and the Union and Central Pacific Railroad companies, in which the government seeks to break the arrange ments for the operation of the telegraph l lines along the railroad
 Meyer vs. Richards, in which arises the validity of the Louisiana state bonds,
 only paid by the state and afterwards -rsseld by Burke. the fugitive state treas
 urer.
 The somewhat famous case Of John G. Moore vs. Joseph s. Miller commission. CT of internal revenue, for an injunction to restrain that official from executing | the new defunct income tax law, also goes over without decision.
 A question of Jurisdiction certified to
 the supreme court of the United States by the court of appeals for the sixth | circuit was answered in m opinion read
 today by MT. Justice Brown. The Car diff Coal and Iron company of Tennessee was placed in the hands of a receiver in
 the ordinary c6nrse of such proceedings, and the receiver found that about 130
 perSonS-some residents of Tennessee,
 others of different states-were indebted
 to the company in sums, none of which
 were less than $2000, payment whereof
 was secured by mortgages upon land which the company had sold to them. He petftioned the court for an order to bring suit against these debtors in one pro- ceeding in order to avoid the great ex-
 pense that would attach to individual
 suits. 1'hp nqtitjOn prn tod ba der made and the case went forward to
 judgment. From this judgment the
 debtors appealed to the court of appeals
 and that court asked the supreme court
 of the United States to answer this
 question:
 Had the circuit court of the United States. in a general creditors suit. properly pending therein for the collec- tion, administration and distribution of the assests of an insolvent corporation. the jurisdiction to hear and determine an ancllary suit instituted in the same cause by its receiver in accordance with it's order against debtors of such corpor- ation, as far as in said suit the receiver claimed the right to recover from any one debtor sum not exceeding $2000?"
 The question was answered in the affirmative, Justice Brown stating that the Jurisdiction of the court to wind up the affairs of the corporation under the creditors bill carried with it the power to sue the debtors of the concern for the amounts due it, although in some cases they might be less than 5000. the min- mum sum that can be involved in a single proceeding before the court.
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 ORDERED REINSTATBD