MR. JUSTICE BRADLEY delivered the opinion of the court.
An award against the United States of nearly $200,000 having been made to one A.R. McDonald, a British subject, by the mixed commission appointed under the treaty of 1871, his bankrupt assignee, Thomas J. Phelps, filed a bill in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia to restrain him from collecting the money, and to have it made subject to his debts, making one White also a defendant, who claimed to have...
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