MR. JUSTICE CLIFFORD delivered the opinion of the court.
District courts, though constituted courts of bankruptcy, do not possess the power under the twenty-fifth section of the Bankrupt Act to order, in a summary way, the sale of an estate, real or personal, although the same is claimed by the assignee, even though the title to the same is in dispute, if it also appears that the estate in question is in the actual possession of a third person, holding the same as...
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