Melville Fuller

“ The order of the district court was not 'a judgment allowing or rejecting a debt or claim of $500 or over,' or the revising order of the circuit court of appeals, 'a final decision, allowing or rejecting a claim,' within the intent and meaning of either subdivision a or b. By § 2, sub. 2, courts of bankruptcy are vested with the power to 'allow claims, disallow claims, reconsider allowed or disallowed claims, and allow or disallow them against bankrupt estates;' and § 57 comprehensively covers the subject of the proof and allowance of claims, treating them as moneyed demands. ”

“ It will be perceived that the jurisdiction of the circuit court of appeals was invoked on an original petition under § 24b of the bankruptcy law, which provides: 'The several circuit courts of appeal shall have jurisdiction in equity, either interlocutory or final, to superintend and revise in matter of law the proceedings of the several inferior courts of bankruptcy within their jurisdiction. ”

“ Campbell, 93 U.S. 347, 23 L. ed. 923; Leggett v. Allen, 110 U.S. 741, 28 L. ed. 313, 4 Sup. Ct. Rep. 195. The jurisdiction now given is carefully restricted, and cannot be expanded beyond the letter of the grant. ”