In re Williams’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions

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1. ““ * * * When a court has the property of a bankrupt estate in its possession for the purpose of a careful administration thereof, it must not be embarrassed and interfered with in the performance of its duties in respect thereto, through intermeddling or the taking possession, by force or otherwise, of such property, by any third person. As a practical necessity, such intermeddling with the property in possession óf the court must be regarded, in effect, as in conflict with the court’s authority and duty, approaching in its nature certain classes of contempt, and must be dealt with in much the same manner. "Any other rule, through the long delays which otherwise would ensue before such interference could he checked, and the effects thereof be corrected, would but serve to invite such encroachments and intermeddling, would greatly thwart the attainment of justice, and would bring the administration of the law into well-merited disrepute. * * * ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 112 F. Supp. 893 - In Re Swofford