“Error to the district court of the United States for the district of Orleans, in a suit of equity, in which Sere & Laralde were complainants, against Pitot and others, defendants. The complainants stated, that they were aliens, and syndics of the creditors of the joint concern of Dumas & Janeau, Pierre Lavergne and Joseph Faurie, that Faurie died insolvent, that Dumas & Janeau were also insolvent, and made a surrender of all their effects to their creditors, and that Lavergne acknowledged himself to be unable to pay the debts of the joint concern; that the joint concerns, as well as the individual members, being insolvent, ‘application was made by their creditors to the superior court of the territory of Orleans, and such proceedings were thereupon had that, according to the laws of the said territory, the complainants were, at a meeting of the creditors of the said partnership, duly nominated syndics of the said creditors and, by the laws of the said territory, all the estate, rights and credits of the said partnership were vested in the complainants.’ They also stated that the defendants were citizens of the United States.”