Legal Opinion
Leighton v. Kennedy
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided April 14, 1904No. 502PublishedCited by 14 opinions
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts.
1Opinion of the Court
PUTNAM, Circuit Judge.
In this case the appellant, Leighton, was adjudicated a bankrupt by the District Court for the District of Massachusetts, and thereupon he seasonably appealed to us. The case turns on the construction, application, and force of the following provision in paragraph “b” of section 59 of the bankruptcy act approved on July 1, 1898, c. 541, 30 Stat. 561, 562 [U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 3445]:
“Three or more creditors who have provable claims against any person, which amount in the aggregate, in excess of the value of securities held by them, if any, to five hundred dollars or…
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