40 F. 314 | U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern New York | 1889
Upon the former argument, (38 Fed. Rep. 380,) as to the doctrine of lis pendens, the brief of defendants’ counsel contained a separate point, in which it was contended that if the state statute applied the complainant should file his notice under it. This point was overlooked by the court, and a reargument upon defendants’ application is therefore proper. Upon ⅛⅜ entry of the decree the receiver was continued as to the leasehold property because it was assumed that in no other way could the status quo of the property, the conveyance of which to the defendants was attacked by the complainant, be successfully maintained. The point for consideration now is whether the rights of complainant can be secured by some other measure, less harsh than the continuance of the receivership. He has a right to insist that the corpus of the property shall not be transferred until the final termination of the suit, and that the accumulated rents and profits, and those yet to be earned by it, shall not be dissipated. He has no right, however, to insist on the continuance of the receivership as a means of coercing the defendants into a consent to waive oral argument in the supreme court, especially where, on an important branch of the case, they are appellants. In the memorandum filed on the former motion it was substantially held that the