In re Kersten

SEAMAN, District Judge.

This is an application by the requisite number of creditors and amount of claims for an adjudication of bankruptcy against Theodore Kersten and Henry Kersten, as co-partners in a private banking business, and the issues arise upon answer and plea interposed by certain other creditors of the. firm. The primary question is whether a case is presented by the petitioning creditors, and I am satisfied that upon one or the .other grounds ai-*930leged, if not upon both, the petitioners are' clearly entitled to the exercise of the bankruptcy jurisdiction, and an adjudication…