Supreme Court of the United States, 1874

The Supreme Court affirmed the Circuit Court’s decree ordering the respondents to pay the sum claimed by the assignee and to be barred from any share of the bankrupts’ estate, holding that the bankruptcy proceeding was regular, the district court had jurisdiction, the sale of the stock within four months was a…

On original petitions for writs of habeas corpus and certiorari, the Supreme Court discharged Edward Lange, who had been convicted of appropriating mail-bags valued under twenty-five dollars and first sentenced to both one year's imprisonment and a $200 fine although the statute authorized only one punishment or the…