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this decision, and I oannotfind that, after the learned judge had taken jurisdiction, he determined any federal question in the disposal of the case. I do not think the case at bar presents a federal question. The motion for a temporary injunction is therefore denied.

PRESCOTT & A. C. RY. CO. v. ATCHISON, T. & S. F. R. CO. et aL (Circuit Court of Appeals, Second Circuit. No.7.
ApPEAL AND ERROR-FINAL JUDGMENT.

November 8, IS97.)

An order signed by the judge, and entered by the clerk, finally dismissing certain of the defendants from the case, and directing the costs to be taxed, is a final appealable order,. though the amount of the costs are not taxed and inserted therein; and a writ of error taken more than six months thereafter must be dismissed, although a more formal judgment was afterwards entered, less than six montbs before the allowlinre of the writ.

In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States fOl'the Southern District of New York.
This was an action at law by the Prescott & Ariwna Central Railway Company against the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Railroad Company and others. On January 8, 1896, the follOWing order was entered by the court below: "The issues herein raised by the complaint, and the answers of the defendant John J. McCook, in his individual capacity, and as receiver of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Railroad Company, and as receiver of the Atlantic & Pacific Railroad Company, and as trustee of the Prescott & Arizona Centrai Railway Company, and the' answer of the defendant John J. :McCook and George F. Crane, as executors and trnstees of and under the last will and testament of George C. Magoun, late of the city of New York, deceased, and the several answers of the defendants Russell Sage and Cecil Baring, coming on to be tried and heard at a term of this court, held on the 6th day of January, 1896, before Honorable E. Henry Lacombe, circuit judge, and a jury, and after hearing )11'. C. N. Sterry and Mr. C. B. Alexander, of counsel for said defendants, in support of a motion for the dismissal of the complaint upon the pleadings, and :\lr. Delos :\1cCurdy, of counsel for tM plaintifl', in opposition, and due deliberation being had, it Is, on motion of Alexander & Green, attorneys for the above-named defendants, ordered that said motion be granted, and that the complaint of the plaintifl' be dismissed as to each and all of the said defendants above named, with costs, to be taxed, and that judgment be entered herein accordingly; further ordered that a stay of fifty days from the date of this order is hereby granted within which the plaintiff may make and serve a bill of exceptions herein. "Dated January B, 1896. "E. Henry Lacombe, U. S. Circuit Judge." On October 2, 1896, a more formal jUdgment was entered by the court, dismissing the bill as to the same defendants, and adjUdging that they recover of the plaintiff. $258.63 costs, and have execution therefor. On the 12th day of October, 1896., by consent of parties, a bill of exceptions was approved ,and allowed. On the same day, assignments of error were filed by plaintiff, and the writ of error Issued. The defendants have now moved to dismiss the writ of error, on the ground that the proceedings in error were instituted more than six months after the order on January 8. 1896, Which, it is claimed, was the final judgment In the case.

Delos McCurdy, for plaintiff in error: C. N. Sterry, for defendants in error. Before WALLACE and SHIPMAN, Circuit Judges.

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FEDERAL REPORTER.

PER OURIAM. The decision of the circuit court entered Januaty6, 1896, ordered the dismissal of the complaint, with costs to be taxed, and that judgment be entered accordingly. 73 Fed. 4038. It was signed by the judge who heard the cause, and entered by the clerk on that date. Nothing further was necessary to a final and complete disposition of the action. The circumstance that the costs were not taxed and the amount inserted in the judgment is not rna· terial. It was essentially a final judgment (Fowler v. Hamill, 139 U. S. 549, 11 Sup. Ot. 663; Tuttle v. Claflin, 13 C. C. A. 281, 66 Fed. 7; Snell v. Dwight, 121 Mass. 349), and must be treated as such, within the meaning of section 11 of the act regulating the jurisdiction of this court, notWithstanding a further and more formal judgment was entered subsequently. As the writ of error was not sued out within six months after the entry of the original judgment, the motion to dismiss the appeal must be granted.
LOVING v. ARNOLD et aI.

(CIrcuIt Court, D. Kentucky.

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November 8, 1897.)

ASSIGNMENTS FOR BENEFIT OF CREDITons-PREFERENCE-PARTIII:ll.

Act Ky. 1856 provides that, In suits to set aside preferential transfeNl of property by an Insolvent debtor, the transferee and the debtor are the only necessary parties defendant. Act Ky. March 16, 1894, relating to voluntary assIgnments, provIdes that property transferred In preference shall vest In the assIgnee, and he shall bring suIt ro recover same. havIng thereIn all the remedies of credltoril. Held, that the provIsions of the two acts give to the assIgnee not only the right to recover of the trans· feree the property fraudulently transferred, but also the rIght to investigate the hona fides of transfers of other property which may not have been fraudulent or preferential, and that, In a suit by an assignee to recover property conveyed In preference, In whIch the bill contains a prayer for general relief, the Insolvent debtor 18 a necessary party.

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SAME.

An assignee, under a general assIgnment pursuant to the Kentucky statutes, does not represent the entIre Interest of the assignor In a suit to set asIde a preferential transfer of property, sInce the transfer will reInstate as obligations agaInst the assIgnor debts whIch were paid by the transfer, thereby makIng hIm dIrectly Interested In the suit and a necessary party thereto.

D. I. Heyman, for complainant. James Quarles (Quarles, Spence & Quarles, of counsel), for defendants. BARR, District Judge. This motion presents a new and interesting question. The complainant, as assignee of W. H. Dillir.'gbam, has brought suit against Charles E. Arnold and Charles and Natban Allen, partners, under the style of N. R. Allen's Sons, and W. H. Dillingham, for the purpose of setting aside a conveyan'ce made by Dillingham and wife on the 27th of March, 1897, to Charles E. Arnold, of a house and lot on Broadway street, in this city. It is alleged that this conveyance was made by Dillingham when for the purpose of preferring the Allen's. Sons in certain debts held by them against him to the exclusioL' of otber creditors. This deed to Arnold is absolute on its face, but it is alleged that it was made to him as trustee, to be