Gibson v. Shufeldt

Citations

• 122 U.S. 27
• 7 S. Ct. 1066
• 30 L. Ed. 1083
• 1887 U.S. LEXIS 2086

Syllabus

<p>In a suit in equity brought in the Circuit Court by two or more persons on several and distinct demands, the defendant can appeal to this court as to those plaintiffs only to each of whom more than $5000 is decreed.</p> <p>A debtor having made an assignment of his property to a trustee to secure a preferred debt of more than $5000, other creditors filed a bill in equity in the Circuit Court against the debtor, the trustee, aDd the preferred creditor; the defendants denied the allegations of the bill, but ashed no affirmative relief; and the decree adjudged the assignment to be fraudulent and void as against the plaintiffs, and ordered the property to be distributed among them. Held, that this court had no jurisdiction of an appeal by the defendants, except as to those plaintiffs who had recovered more than $6000 each.</p>