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250 F. 445

Docket No. 184.

Galbraith v. Rosenstein

Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals

Decided March 29, 1918.)

Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals · decided 1918-03-29

Petition to Revise Order of the District Court of the United States for the District of Minnesota; Charles F. Amidon, Judge. . In the matter of the bankruptcy of William Aaron Rosenstein. Petition by John P. Galbraith, trustee in bankruptcy, to revise an order of the District Court, dismissing a rule to show cause why the bankrupt should not be adjudged in contempt.

1 counsel of record

Relies on Fourth Nat. Bank of Wichita v. Smith · Lott v. Salsbury · WM. R. Moore Dry Goods Co. v. Brooks

Petition denied · Decided 1918-03-29

¶1BANKRUPTCY <§5=5440-PETITION TO ¡REVISE-MATTERS ItlSVIEWABLE.

¶2A petition to revise is not the appropriate remedy to review the action of tho District Court in dismissing a rule to show cause why a bankrupt should not be adjudged in contempt for failure and refusal to comply with a turn-over order, where tho question involved was purely one of fact.

¶3Petition to Revise Order of the District Court of the United States for the District of Minnesota; Charles F. Amidon, Judge.

¶4. In the matter of the bankruptcy of William Aaron Rosenstein. Petition by John P. Galbraith, trustee in bankruptcy, to revise an order of the District Court, dismissing a rule to show cause why the bankrupt should not be adjudged in contempt.

¶5Petition denied.

¶6Todd, Rosnes, Sterling & Nelson, of St. Paul, Minn., for petitioner. Josiah F. Brill, of Minneapolis, Minn., for respondent.

¶7Before SANBORN, CARI,A ND, and STONE, Circuit Judges.

¶8STONE, Circuit Judge.

¶9Petition to revise action of District Court in dismissing rule to show cause why respondent, a bankrupt, should *446not be adjudged in contempt for failure and refusal to comply with order of referee to turn over the sum of $2,500 to the trustee. The order of the District Court was based oh the insufficiency of the evidence before the referee to sustain the referee’s order or the contempt proceedings.

¶10The errors claimed are: (1) That the evidence before the referee was sufficient to sustain his order, and the court should thereon have affirmed that order. (2) That the contempt proceedings should not have been dismissed.

¶11The sole point urged here by petitioner is the sufficiency of the above evidence before the referee to sustain his order and to justify a contempt order by the District Court. The respondent here insists that this is purely a question of fact, and that such questions are not carried in a petition to revise. There is no question that different conclusions might have been drawn from the evidence. It might well have supported a finding either way. In this situation the position of respondent is well taken. Wm. R. Moore Dry Goods Co. v. Brooks, 240 Fed. 943, 153 C. C. A. 629; Fourth National Bank v. Smith, 240 Fed. 19, 153 C. C. A. 55; Lott v. Salsbury, 237 Fed. 191, 150 C. C. A. 337; 3 Standard Encyc. Proc. 1017, and citations.

¶12The petition is denied.

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