Court Opinion

ID: 9639339
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 16:13:06.477145+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:10:16.101530
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BOOTH, Circuit Judge,
concurring in part.
I concur in the result and also in the opinion, except that portion thereof which holds that this court has jurisdiction of the appeal under section 129, Jud. Code (28 USCA § 227).
I do not think that the “hearing” before the referee in bankruptcy on the sole question of his jurisdiction was such a “hearing” as would give to the restraining order the character of an interlocutory injunction, and make it an appealable order under section 129, Jud. Code.
A “hearing” to have that effect must, in my opinion, be one on the merits of the application for the injunction. This is my understanding of the holding in .the case of Western Union Telegraph Co. v. United States & Mexican Trust Co., 221 F. 545 (C. C. A. 8), cited in the majority opinion.
In the ease of Field v. Kansas City Refining Co., 296 F. 800, 802 (C. C. A. 8), also cited in the majority opinion, the order appealed from was described by this court, in its opinion, thus: “Not only was the order in effect a temporary injunction, but it was such in name also.”
I prefer to base the jurisdiction of this court on the ground that the present “appeal” is an equivalent of the “petition to revise” which existed, section 24b of the Bankruptcy Act, prior to the passage of the Act of May 27, 1926 (44 Stat. 664, 11 USCA § 47 (b), and which “petition to revise” was the approvéd method of bringing before the appellate court the question of the jurisdiction of the referee in bankruptcy. In re Rathman, 183 F. 913 (C. C. A. 8); In re Weidhorn (C. C. A.) 253 F. 28; Id., 253 U. S. 268, 40 S. Ct. 534, 64 L. Ed. 898; Gibbons v. Goldsmith (C. C. A.) 222 F. 826; Board of Commissioners v. Keil (C. C. A.) 259 F. 76.
The Act of May 27, 1926, substituted an “appeal” in place of a “petition to revise,” but, in my judgment, did not change the essential character or scope of the procedure to obtain review.