...the jurisdiction thus conferred. By section 23 it is provided: "(a) The United States circuit court shall have jurisdiction of all controversies at law...concerning the property acquired or claimed by the trustee. in the same manner, and to the same extent only, as though bankruptcy proceedings had not...

...provision of the latter section. By this latter section the United States Circuit Courts are accorded jurisdiction of all controversies at law and in equity,...concerning the property acquired or claimed by the trustee, in the same manner and to the same extent as though bankruptcy proceedings had never been...

...founded. They invoke the provisions of sections 23a and 23b of the bankruptcy law to the effect that the Circuit Courts shall have jurisdiction of all controversies...distinguished from proceedings in bankruptcy between trustees and adverse claimants to the same extent only as though bankruptcy proceedings had not been instituted,...

...the jurisdiction of the United States and state courts. The entire section reads as follows: "Sec. 23 (a) The United States circuit courts shall have jurisdiction of all controversies at law and IE equity, as distinguished from proceedings in bankruptcy, between trustees as such and adverse claimants...

...in the bankruptcy court by virtue of the rule aforesaid, nor does the bankruptcy statute confer it. Jurisdiction of all controversies at law and in equity, as distinguished from proceedings in bankruptcy, were by said statute, when this proceeding was initiated!, vested in the Circuit Court (concurrently...

...was, in part, to make the boundaries, under said act, between federal and state judiciaries, as to "all controversies at law and in equity, as distinguished from proceedings in bankruptcy," coincident with ihe lines of demarkation then existing, thus giving an adverse claimant, against whom...

...was clearly cognizable in the bankruptcy court as a bankruptcy proceeding. The cases now at bar were controversies at law and in equity as distinguished from proceedings in bankruptcy. The proposition that "trustee bringing suit in any state court it may be transferred to the district...

...so amended, be, and the same hereby is, amended to read as follows: "(a) The United States district courts shall have jurisdiction of all controversies...claimed by the trustees, in the same manner and to the same extent only as though bankruptcy proceedings had not been instituted and such controversies had...

...was, in part, to make the boundaries, under said act, between federal and State judiciaries, as to all controversies at law and in equity, as distinguished from proceedings In bankruptcy, coincident with the lines of demarkation then existing, thus giving an adverse claimant, against whom...

...and Judiciary] Section 23 of the Bankruptcy Act [section 46 of this title] makes it clear that suits at law and in equity, 'as distinguished from proceedings in bankruptcy,' between trustees in bankruptcy and adverse claimants, were not withdrawn from the general jurisdiction of either state...