In re People's Safe-Deposit & Savings Inst.

WALLACE, District Judge.

Except as regards the seventh item of the claim of Buchanan, I agree with the register in his conelu-sions. As to the seventh item, the register holds that it should be allowed, were it net that, having set it up as a defence to the action brought by the bankrupt against him, and judgment having been recovered against him in that action, Buchanan is precluded from from proving it now, upon the doctrine of res adjudicata.

It is not disputed that Buchanan might have litigated the claim now presented in that action, but it is contended in his behalf that, as proceedings in…