OASES ARGUED AND DETERMINED IN THE
UNITED STATES CIRCUIT COURTS OF APPEALS AND THE CIRCUIT AND DISTRICT COURTS. LOUISVILLE TRUS'l' CO. v. STOCKTON. (Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit. No. 445. January 21, 1896.)
1.
ERROR 'fO CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS-TIME OF SUING OUT WRIT.
The six months 'within which a writ of error to the circuit court of appeals must be sued out does not begin to run while a motion for a new trial is pending. Railway Co. v. Murphy, 4 Sup. Ct. 407, 111 U. S. 488, applied.
2.
SAME-ALLOWAiwE OF WRIT.
A formal petition for the allowance of a writ of error is not requisite to the vesting of jurisdiction in the circuit court of appeals. Therefore, where the writ was issued by the clerk of a circuit court without the filing of any petition therefor, or the allowance thereof by any judge, but the judge subsequently. and within the time limited, signed a bill ot exceptions and a citation, held, that this was sufficient to give jnrisdictlon to the appellate court.
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Florida. H. Bisbee and C. D. Rhinehart, for plaintiff in error. A. W. Cockrell, for defendant in error. Before PARDEE and McCORMICK, Circuit Judges, and BOARMAN, District Judge.
PARDEE, Circuit Judge. The defendant in error moves to dismiss the writ of error in this case upon the following grounds: (1) No petition for a writ of error was made or filed herein. (2) No writ of error was allowed herein, on petition or otherwise. (3) The writ of error was issued by the clerk of the circuit court in which judgment sought to be reviewed was rendered, without a petition filed therefor, and without an allowance thereof by a judge of said cir· cuit court, or by a judge of the circuit court of appeals of the Fifth drcuit, authorized by law to allow such writ of error. (4) The only action taken in respect of, or in reference to, the appeal based on the said writ of error herein, by a judge authorized by law to allow v.72F.no.l-l
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FEDERAL REPORTER,
vol. 72.
writs of error, was the signing of the bill of exceptions herein, on the 14th day of November, 1895, and the signing of citation herein, by Hon. James W. Locke, a judge of the said circuit court of the Southern district of Florida, on the 9th dayof'November, 1895, more than six months after the entry of the judgment herein sought to be reviewed, which said judgment was entered on the 1st day of May, 1895. We have examined the record and considered the argument of counsel. The judgment in the court below was rendered on the 1st day of May, 1895, and thereupon a motion for a new trial was entered, which was overruled on the 2d day of June, 1895. The citation directing the defendant in error to answer in this court was signed and issued on the 9th day of November, 1895, more than six months after the entry of the judgment sought to be reviewed, but within six months from the date when the motion for a new trial was overruled. The time limited for suing out a writ of error does not begin to run while there is a motion for a new trial pending. Railway Co. v. Murphy, 111 U. 8. 488, 4 Sup. Ct. 497. A formal petition for the allowance of a writ of error, in order to vest the appellate court with jurisdiction, is not necessary. Davidson v.Lanier, 4 Wall. 447; Ex parte Virginia Com'rs, 112 U. S. 177, 5 Sup. Ct. 421. Even in case of appeal, the approval of the bond and signing of citation has been held to be a sufficient allowal1ce of the appeal. Brandies v. Cochrane, 105 U. S. 262, and cases there cited. In the instant case, the judge of the circuit court signed the citation, and accepted the bond tendered. It seems very clear that the motion to dismiss this writ of error on the grounds stated should be overruled, and it is so ordered. GOLDEN v. BRUNING et a1. (Circuit Court, D. Indiana. No. 9,280. R.EMOVAL OF CAUSES-SEPARABLE CONTROVERSY.
February 12, 1896.)
G., as administrator of J. F. 8., deceased, brought a suit In a court of the state of Indiana against W. H. B., a citizen or New York, and C., a citizen of Indiana. for an accounting of the affairs of a partnership composed of J. F. B. and W.. If. B., the assets of which were alleged to consist In part ot f\!al estate purchaSed for partnerl:dlip purposes. It was averred that surh real estate was orlginaiiy conveyed to C., who held it In trust for the Iirm for a time, and then conveyed it to her mother, who held it in trust for the firm untn she died, intestate, leaving C., J. F. B., and W. H. B. as her heirs; and that, after her death. C. and J. F. B. conveyed their interests to W. H. B., In trust for the firm; but that both C. and W. H. B., respectively, claimed the land as their individual property, C. claiu\ing that the deeds made by her were procured by the fraud of W. H. B. Held, that C. was a necessary party to the suit, and there was no separable controversy between the plaintiff ana W. H. B. which could be removed to the federal court.
McCullough & Spaan, for complainant. Smith & Korbly and Miller, Winter & Elam, for defendants.