Williams v. Heard

Citations

• 140 U.S. 529
• 11 S. Ct. 885
• 35 L. Ed. 550
• 1891 U.S. LEXIS 2483

Syllabus

<p>When the judgment of a state court is against an assignee in bankruptcy-in an action between him and the bankrupt, where the question at issue is whether the matter in controversy passed by the assignment, this court has jurisdiction in error to review the judgment.</p> <p>The sum awarded by the Tribunal of Arbitration at Geneva, when paid, constituted a national fund, in which no individual claimant had any rights legal or equitable, and which Congress could distribute as it pleased.</p> <p>The decisions and awards of the Court of Commissioners of Alabama ■ Claims, under the statutes of the United States, were conclusive as to • the amount to be paid upon each claim adjudged to be valid, but not as to the party entitled to receive it.</p> <p>A claim decided by that court to be a valid claim against the United States is property which passes to the assignee of a bankrupt under an assignment made prior to the decision.</p> <p>Comegys v. Vasse, 1 Pet. 193, again affirmed and applied, and United States v. Weld, 127 U. S. 51, distinguished.</p>