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FEDERAL REPORTER,
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For the' reasons indicated the case must .be reversed and reomanded, and ,all of the provisions of the decree from which the appeal was taken must be eanceled, whieh in ariy wise interfere with the appellant's right to enforce the 'Woodburn judgment. In view of possible future aetion which may be taken by the ereditors of the Land Oompany, we think it would be unwise to require the appellants to exeeute a present release of the lien aequired under the judgment obtained in the name of Benkleman. Therefore the case will be remanded to the circuit court, with directions to vacate its former decree, and in lieu thereof to enter a decree restraining the appellants from taking any present. action to enforce the judgment recovered in the name of Benkleman, or any future action in that behalf save such as may be tlrst sanctioned and approved by the l;nited States circuit court for the district of Oolorado, and further requiring said appellants to take all such future proceedings with respect to said judgment as may be required of them by said court in the suit to wind up the Lr,nd Company. FArLEY v. TALBEE et al. (Circuit Court, D. Rhude Island. :May 27, 1893.)
No. 2,380.
1.
EQUITY JURISDIC'l'ION-RECEIYERS JUHISDICTIONS.
POWER TO COLI,EC'1' FUNDS IN :FOREIGN
Where a court of competent jurisdiction hilS, by the appointment of D. receiver, assumed the administration of the funds of an insolvent IWIWVolent association, it is competent for a cOllrt of equity in anotller on a bill filed for that purpose by such receiver, to order the trustees of the local lJranch of such association to pay over the funds in their hands to the receiver.
2. SAME-BENEVOI,E:-<T ORDERS-REGULATIONS. It is no objection to making SllCh an order that the fund in question
constitutes a leSeI'Ve fund which, by the rules of the association, the central authority could only call in at certain times and for certain purposes, and not for the gcneral purpose of liquidating the whole trust fund; for while the rules of tile association may impress different parts of its funds with different equities, yet its rules as to the manner of ascertaining and marsllaling these equities are abrogated wllen it becomes insolvent aud is placed in the hands of a receiver; and the methods of tile court are then substituted for the methods provided by such rules.
3.
Although the bill filed by the receiver in such case does not set out the proceedings of the court in which he was appointed, for which reason it is impossilJle to determine the scope of the decree entered in that court, or wllether tlle receiver is entitled thereunder to fully administer the whole trust, a demurrer to the bill will be overruled, as the matters in question can be made to appear by evidence at a hearing on the merits. SAME.
4.
'l'he safe rule on a general demurrer to a bill in equity is that tIle d('murrer must be overl1lled unless it appears that on no possible state of the evidence could a decree be made.
In Equity. Bill by James F. FaHey, receiter of the Supreme Sitting of the Order of the Iron Hall, against Henry O. Talbee
FAIJ.EY V. TALBEE.
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and others, to gain possession of certain funds of the order. demurrer to the bill. Overruled. W. F. Angell and G. B. Barrows, for complainant.
On
E. D. "vlcGuinness and W. B. ·W. Hallett, for respondents. CAHPEKTER, Distriet Judge. This is a bill in equity in which the complainant, who has been appointed by the superior court of Marion county, Ind., receiver of all the assets of the corporation called the "Supreme Sitting of the Order of the Iron Hall," prays that the respondents, who are trustees of the branches of that society situated in this state, may pay over to him the money held by them as the reserve fund; the same to be held and disposed of by him according to the instructions of the court by which he was appointed. The respondents demur generally to the bill, and as the first ground of their argument ma"n'a'n that it is not competent for this court to make a decree ordering the payment of these sums of money into the hands of a receiver appointed and controlled by another jurisdiction. I th'nk, however, it is abundantly well settled that where a court having prop2r jurisdiction has assumed the control and administration of a trust like this, and where it appears that the funds to which the litigation relates are properly part of the fund so to be administered, and will be properly administered, in sueh case it is competent to order the funds to be paid over. The respondents, however, further contend that the mon"ys here in dispute do not belong to or form a part of the fund to administered under the order of the court in Indiana; and they I' fer me to the first section of the second law of the Hupreme Hitting, \vhich has reference to the reserve fund, and which that the same "is the property of the Rupl'eme Sitting, and shall he subject to its control at all times, as hereinafter prodded." The argument, then, is that, according to this law, the Ruprpme Hitting can call for the reserve fund only at certain times and for certain purposes, and therefore the receiver can call it in only at those times and for those purposes, and not for the general PUl'P0S2 of liquidating the whole trust fund. This argument, I think, rests on a misapprehension of the effect of the laws of the society. They undoubtedly do impress upon the funds the charaetpr of trust funds, and perhaps affect different parts of the funrl with di"erent equities; but as to the time and manner of ascertaining anJ marshaling these e(IuiHes, and as to the method of administration of the fund accordingly, they must be taken to be aln'ogate(] in the case where, as this bill alleges, the society is insolvent. 'l'lte methods of the court are now to be substituted for the methods provided by the laws. Coming, then, to consider whether the rights of the parties in this case will be best promoted by such a decree as the complainant prays, I find it impossible to determine from the bill itself what answer shall be given to this question. 'l'he bill aLeges,
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but does not set out, the proceedings on whlch the decree of the Indiana court is based, and I cannot, therefore, determine certainly what the scope of that decree is, and whether the receiver who holds thereunder can fully administer the whole trust which is here 'disclosed. Still further; the method of his proceedings may be controlled by the state laws of Indiana, of which the court takes notice, but perhaps takes only as a matter ,of evidence, and which, therefore, cannot be taken into account in a hearing on a general demurrer. There are still other questions of the relative rights of various members of this society which were suggested by the respondents at the hearing, and which, so far as I can see, can be rightly solved only after full knowledge of all the facts regarding the history of these payments, and the disposition which has bec'n heretofore made of such parts of the funds as are no longer ill the hands of the society. These facts can be made to appear only by the evidence in the cause. The safe rule on a general demurrer to abilI in equity is that the demurrer must be overruled unless it appears that on no possible state of the evidence could a decree be made. It seems to me that no such conclusion can be reached in this case; in short, it seems to me that the questions suggested by the bill, as well as the questions sug-ges,ed by the respondents themselves in their argument, can solved .only after a full hearing of the cause on bill, answer, and proofs. The demurrer must therefore be overruled.
BEAL v. NATIOKAL EXCH. BANK OF DALLAS. (Circuit Court of Appeals, I<'irst Circuit. :May 23, 1893.)
No. 32. BANKS AND
\Vhere a bunk sends commercial paper to another bank for collection and credit on ,general account, the custom between them being to enter the credit onl:\" w!:;en the paper is collected, the relation between the banks is that of principal and agent until the collection is made and the money received hy the second bank; and if the latter sends it to another bank, which (Qllects the paper, but does not remit the proceeds until after the agent bank has failed, the principal can recover the proeeeds from the receiver thereof. 50 Ired. Rep. 355, affirmed. Bank v. Armstrong, 13 Sup. Ct. Rep. 533, followed.
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts. In Equity. Bill by the National Exchange Bank of Dallas ag-ainst Thomas P. Beal, receiver of the Maverick National Bank of Boston, to recover the amount of a certain draft collected through the latter bank. A demurrer to the bill was overruled. 50 Fed. Rep. 355. By a stipulation filed, the allegations of the bill were taken, at the hearing, as an agreed statement of the facts, and the court entered a ilecree for complainant. Defendant appeals. Affirmed.