In re Kessler
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. In the matter of bankruptcy proceedings of Alfred Kessler and others, composing the firm of Kessler & Co. From an order of the District Court (176 Fed. 647), affirming an order of the referee declining to allow Heine & Co., Paris creditors, to amend their proof of claim, and disallowing their claim against the estate, they appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
LACOMBE, Circuit Judge.
On October 30, 1907, the firm of Kessler & Co. made an assignment for the benefit of creditors to William Williams, who next day sent out a printed circular to the creditors. Heine & Co., bankers in Paris, received a copy, and promptly on such receipt sent (November 12, 1907) to Williams’ assignee an account in detail of their transactions with Kessler & Co. showing a balance ow*52ing to Heine & Co. The account was accompanied with a letter stating that it was an extract of account of the firm, showing-a debit balance of 140,720 francs, and adding that Heidelbach,…
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