Court Opinion

ID: 9650686
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 15:48:38.265385+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:12:25.151706
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On Petition for Rehearing.
Pursuant to the opinion filed herein on January 4, 1943, this court modified the judgment appealed from by increasing the amount thereof in the sum of $400. Upon petition for rehearing we are reminded that the appellee did not file a cross-appeal, for which reason the amount of the judgment should not have been increased.
In appeals in bankruptcy, this court has appellate jurisdiction to review, affirm, revise, or reverse the judgment appealed from, both as to matters of law and fact,5 but the jurisdiction thus conferred must be invoked before it may be exercised.6 In the absence of a cross-appeal, appellee may not attempt either to enlarge his rights under the judgment appealed from or to lessen the rights of his adversary.7 Therefore, the modification of the judgment appealed from was erroneous. This error will be corrected and the judgment affirmed without modification.
In all other respects the petition for rehearing is overruled.

 11 U.S.C.A. § 47.

 The Stephen Morgan, 94 U.S. 599, 24 L.Ed. 266; Loudon v. Taxing District, 104 U.S. 771, 26 L.Ed. 923; Bacon v. Federal Land Bank of Columbia, 5 Cir., 109 F.2d 285.

 Landram v. Jordan, 203 U.S. 56, 27 S.Ct. 17, 51 L.Ed. 88; United States v. Am. Ry. Ex. Co., 265 U.S. 425, 44 S.Ct. 560, 68 L.Ed. 1087; Morley Co. v. Maryland Casualty Co., 300 U.S. 185, 57 S.Ct. 325, 81 L.Ed. 593; Pennsylvania Cement Co. v. Bradley Contracting Co., 2 Cir., 13 F.2d 532; United States v. Johnson, 8 Cir., 98 F.2d 462; Collier on Bankruptcy, 14th Ed., Vol. 2, page 970.