In re Pitts

Brown, D. J.

The bankrupt filed his voluntary petition in bankruptcy on the twenty-seventh day of July, 1878; adjudication of bankruptcy was made August 29, 1878, and an assignee appointed. The bankrupt had previously carried on a grocery store at Kingston, and on January 30, 1878, his brother, Henry H. Pitts, recovered a judgment against him, by default, for $6,246.01, upon which execution was immediately issued to the sheriff, and his stock of goods sold out thereunder on February 6, 1878, to Henry, the judgment creditor, who took possession and continued the same business. Thereafter, many…