In re Chope
California Supreme Court
' Appeal from an order of the Superior Court of Humboldt County adjudging the insolvency of a debtor. G. W. Hunter, Judge. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
Britt, C.
On December 16, 1893, Chope filed in the superior court of Humboldt county a paper purporting to be his voluntary petition in insolvency, and, on the same day, the court made an order under section 6 of the Insolvent Act of 1880, as amended in 1891, declaring him insolvent, fixing January 20, 1894, for the meeting of creditors, and appointing the sheriff of the county a receiver to take possession of his estate and keep the same until the appointment of an assignee. ’On January 11, 1894, Columbus Waterhouse, one of the *632creditors named in the schedules accompanying said petition, took…
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