In re Rouse
District Court, N.D. Illinois
In Bankruptcy. On petition of various workmen, laborers, and servants of the bankrupts for preferential payment of their claims.
1Opinion of the CourtGrosscup, District Judge
(orally). On the 31st of August, 1898, the firm of Rouse, Hazard & Co., manufacturers, of bicycles, suspended business; its property being on that date seized by the sheriff of Peoria county, Ill., under executions issued upon judgments rendered against the corporation in the courts of the state of Illinois. Subsequently the property was sold by the sheriff, and the proceeds held by him subject to further order. On the 1st of November, 1898, a petition was filed in this court by creditors, alleging the foregoing facts, and such other as in law constituted the firm of Rouse, Hazard & Co.…
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