In re Wiley

MCDONALD, District Judge.

In this case, James Davis has filed a petition alleging that one John Higgins, on the 12th of April, 1867, executed a note to Wiley the bankrupt, for five hundred dollars; that to secure one Fielding Denny on a loan of one hundred and fifty dollars, about that time made by him to Wiley, Wiley pledged to Denny that note; and that it remained in Denny’s hands till Wiley was adjudged a bankrupt, and till one John M. Burns was appointed his as-signee, who paid off said one hundred and fifty dollars, received from Denny the five-hundred-dollar note, collected it, and now…