Miller v. The Peerless’s Empirical Analysis

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1 district ·

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1. ““The court has power to distribute surplus to all those who can show a vested interest therein in the order of their several priorities, no matter how their claims originated. * * * It is a wholesome jurisdiction very commonly exercised by nearly all superior courts, to distribute a fund rightfully in its possession to those who are legally entitled to it; and there is no sound reason why admiralty courts should not do the same. If a case should be so complicated as to require the interiwsition of a court of equity, the district court could refuse to act and refer the parties to a more competent tribunal.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Gray v. Proceeds of the Advance