Stillman v. Hart

Citations

• 126 F. 359
• 61 C.C.A. 309
• 1903 U.S. App. LEXIS 4326

Syllabus

<p>1. Appeal — Final Order — Directing Payments from Fund in Court.</p> <p>An order of a Circuit Court allowing its clerk a commission on a fund in the depository of the court, awaiting final decree in a pending cause, and directing the drawing of a check on said fund therefor, is a final order and appealable.</p> <p>2. Jurisdiction of Federal Courts — Transfer of Causes — Act Creating New District.</p> <p>The effect of section 7 of Act March 11, 1902, c. 183, 32 Stat. 64, 66 [U. S. Comp. St. Supp. 1903, pp, 66, 69], dividing the state of Texas into four federal judicial districts, which section transfers to the courts of the new Southern District jurisdiction over all pending causes of which they would have had jurisdiction if they had been instituted when such c¿uses were commenced, was to deprive the courts of the other districts of jurisdiction to make any further orders in such causes.</p> <p>If 1. Finality of judgments and decrees for purpose of review, see notes to Central Trust Co. of New York v. Madden, 17 C. C. A. 238; Prescott & A. C. Ry. Co. v. Atchison, T. & S. F. R. Co., 28 C. C. A. 482.</p>