Court Opinion

ID: 8863140
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-11-26 17:55:23.405997+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:05:53.948011
License: Public Domain

LACOMBE, Circuit Judge.
In view of Judge Wheeler’s opinion upon decision of the demurrers (88 Fed. 713), it must be assumed that there has been no adjudication in any court, sufficient to constitute due process of law, as to the validity of the release which complainants impeach as being obtained by fraud. There is sufficient shown in the moving papers to warrant the court in preserving the status quo until final hearing, but it would seem that this may be done sufficiently by injunction. Complainants may take an order enjoining Bitch, Bulkley, and Vaughan from paying over any more of the $600,-000 still in their hands, and such of the other defendants served as are residents of this district, or have appeared here either by notice of appearance generally, or otherwise by actual appearance without reservation, from disposing of or further incumbering the proceeds of any sums of money paid to them under the alleged secret trust until final hearing or further order of this court.
The present suit is not one “to enforce any legal or equitable lien upon, or claim to, or to remove any incumbrance or lien or cloud upon the title to real or personal property within the district.” Vo specific real properly or personal property is sought to he affected. It is not therefore within the saving clause of the act of 1888, which preserves section 8 of the act of 1875. The motion, therefore, of Lincoln University, a citizen and resident of Pennsylvania, to set aside service of subpoena, is granted; and the injunction against Bitch, Bulkley, and Vaughan will except any payments to that particular corporation. Motion for receiver is denied.