In re United Button Co.’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 8 district ·

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1. ““In case two or more petitions shall be filed against the same individual in different districts, the first hearing shall be had in the district in which the debtor has his domicile, and the petition may be amended by inserting an allegation of an act of bankruptcy committed at an earlier date than that first .alleged, if such earlier act is charged in either of the other petitions; and in case of two or more petitions against the same partnership in different courts, each having jurisdiction over the case, the petition first filed shall be first heard, and may be amended by the inserting of an allegation of an earlier act of bankruptcy than that first alleged, if such eárlier act is charged in either of the other petitions, and, in either case, the proceedings upon the other petitions may be stayed until an adjudication is made upon the petition first heard; and the court which makes the first adjudication of bankruptcy shall retain jurisdiction over all proceedings therein until the same shall be closed. In ease two or more petitions shall be filed in different districts by different members of the same partnership for an adjudication of the bankruptcy of said partnership, the court in which the petition is first filed, having jurisdiction, shall take and retain jurisdiction over all proceedings in such bankruptcy until the same shall be closed; and if such petitions shall be filed in the same district, action shall be first had upon the one first filed. But the court so re”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In re United Button Co. · In re New Era Novelty Co.

2. ““The District Court of Delaware first took jurisdiction; it adjudicated the corporation bankrupt; it is the court within the district of the domicile. These facts severally vest it with exclusive jurisdiction to proceed with the administration. * * * These views lead to the conclusion that the proceedings in this court should be stayed,-and that the corporation appointed receiver in the Delaware district should be appointed ancillary receiver in this district, and that the receiver heretofore appointed in these proceedings should transfer to such other receiver all property of the bankrupt within his control, upon payment of all expenses of administration in this district, so far as it has proceeded.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In re United Button Co.

3. ““In the event petitions are filed against the same person, or against different members of a partnership, in different courts of bankruptcy, each of which has jurisdiction, the cases shall be transferred, by order of the courts relinquishing jurisdiction, to and be consolidated by the one of such courts which can proceed with the same for the greatest convenience of parties in interest.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In re United Button Co.