MR. JUSTICE VAN DEVANTER delivered the opinion of the court.
This suit in equity was brought in the District Court for the Southern District of Texas by a trustee in bankruptcy. A motion to dismiss the bill for want of jurisdiction was sustained, and the propriety of that ruling is the sole question presented on this direct appeal. See Jud. Code, § 238; c. 22, 38 Stat. 804.
The allegations of the bill are to this effect: March 17, 1917, a petition in...
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