MR. JUSTICE BRADLEY delivered the opinion of the court.
The question in this case is, whether, under the Bankrupt Act as passed in 1867, an assignee in bankruptcy, without regard to the citizenship of the parties, could maintain a suit for the recovery of assets in a circuit court of the United States in any district other than that in which the decree of bankruptcy was made; if not, whether the amendatory act of 1874 (18 Stat. 178, sect. 3) validated such a suit...
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