In re Baird
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
In Bankruptcy.
1Opinion of the Court
J. B. McPHERSON, District Judge.
It is certainly not the duty of a trustee to litigate every question that may be called to his notice by the creditors, however frivolous or apparently lacking in support it may be. On the other hand, he should not be permitted, by-requiring indemnity in every instance against the costs and expenses of a suit, to cast the risk of controversy upon the particular creditor who may request him to undertake it. A general rule upon this subject would be very difficult to lay down, and I shall not essay the enterprise. It may be safely said, however, that if a trustee…
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