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Under the Bankrupt Act of March 2, 1867, 14 Stat. 517, an assignee in bankruptcy, without regard to the citizenship of the parties, could maintain a suit for the recovery of assets in a circuit court of the United States in a district other than that in which the decree of bankruptcy was made.

APPEAL from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.