HOVEY v. McDONALD


109 U.S. 150 (1883)

HOVEY & Another, Appellants, v. McDONALD & Another.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided November 5th, 1883.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Chas. W. Hornor and Mr. G.F. Edmunds for the appellants.

Mr. Conway Robinson for the receiver.


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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