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UNITED STATES CIRCUIT COURTS OF APPEALS AND THE CIRCUIT AND DISTRICT COURTS.
CRABTREE v. McCURTAIN (CIrcuit Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit. No. 365. PRACTICE-MonON FOR REARGUMENT-DILIGENCE.
January 25, 1895.)
Where a standing order of the circuit court of appeals directs that mandates upon decisions of that court shall be retained for 60 days before transmission to the lower court, a motion for reargument should be made within such 60 days, unless it appears that counsel were not notified of the decision, or could not, with reasonable diligence, have ascertained the facts on which the motion is based within that time; and a motion made over six months after the decision, on grounds easily ascertainable at any time, comes too late.
In Error to the United States Court in the Indian Territory. Motion for leave to file a petition for rehearing, which was reo ceived by the clerk 'November 24, 1894, denied. George E. Nelson, for plaintiff in error. Before CALDWELL, SANBORN, and THAYER, Circuit Judges. SANBORN, Circuit Judge. May 7, 1894, the judgment of the United States court in the Indian Territory in this case, which was brought to this court on writ of error, was affirmed with costs because it appeared from the record presented to this court that no assignment of errors was filed until after six months from the entry of the judgment below. Crabtree v. McCurtain, 61 Fed. 808, 10 C. C. A. 86. Pursuant to the standing order of February 20, 1893, the clerk issued the mandate of this court to the court below 60 days after this decision, on July 7, 1894. November 24, 1894, the clerk received a motion for a rehearing on the ground that the assignment of errors was in fact filed within six months of the entry of the judgment below, although by mistake it appeared in the record presented to this court to have been filed more than six months thereafter. The motion papers were not filed, but were v.66F.no.1-1
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returned to counsel for plaintiff in error on the ground that the application came too late. He now applies for leave to renew the motion, and to file the motion papers. No showing of diligence in preparing this motion for rehearing is made, and we think that the lapse of time from May 7, 1894, to November 24,1894, evidences such a lack of diligence that we ought not now to hear this motion. Motions for rehearings should be made within the 60 days fixed by the order of this court for the retention of the mandate to the lower court, unless it clearly appears that counsel was not informed of the decision, or that he could not have ascertained the facts on which his motion is based, by the exercise of reasonable diligence, within that time. The mistake upon which this motion is based is that the original record in the court below shows that the assignment of errors was filed September 10,1893, while the printed record in this court shows it to have been filed September 18, 1893. We can conceive of no reason why counsel could not have ascertained this fact within 60 days of the decision affirming the judgment of the court below, as notice of that decision, and of the ground on which it was made, was mailed to him on the day it was filed. The motion for leave to file this petition for rehearing must be denied, and it is so ordered WHITE et aI. v. EWING. (Circuit Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit. February 5, 1895.) No. 212. CIRCUIT COURTS-JURISDICTION-ANCII,LARY SUITS-AMOUNT IN DISPUTE.
Has the circuit court of the United States, in a general creditors' suIt properly pending therein for the collection, administration, and distribution of the assets of an insolvent corporation, the jurisdiction to hear and determine an ancillary suit instituted in the same cause by its receiver, in 'accordance with its order, against debtors of such corporation, so far as in said suit the receiver claimed the right to recover from anyone debtor a sum not exceeding $2,000? Reid, by the circuit court of appeals for the Sixth circuit, that the question should be certified (Act March 3, 1891, § 6) to the supreme court of the United States for its proper decision.
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern Division of the Eastern District of Tennessee. This was an ancillary suit, instituted by Boyd Ewing, as receiver in the main cause of Bosworth against the Cardiff Coal & Iron Company, against J. H. White and numerous others. From the decree entered, both parties appeal. The circuit court of appeals reserves the question of the jurisdiction of the circuit court for decision by the supreme court upon certificate. John W. Yoe, John F. McNutt, and Tully R. Cornick, for appellants. Pritchard & Sizer (Clark & Brown, of counsel), for appellee and cross appellant. Before TAFT and LURTON, Circuit Judges, and SEVERENS, District Judge.