In re Cohen

LOWELL, District Judge.

At the first meeting of creditors, sundry claims were presented for proof, and all those presented by parties now appealing from the decision of the referee were there contested. In view of all these circumstances, more fully set out in his certificate, that officer found it impracticable at that meeting to pass upon the validity of the claims there presented, and continued their consideration. See section 57d, Act July 1, 1898, c. 541, 30 Stat. 560 [U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 3443]. As it thus became impossible to proceed to the election of a trustee in the ordinary…