Moch v. Market St. Nat. Bank
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
1Opinion of the Court
ACHESON, Circuit Judge.
The question presented by this appeal is whether the liability of a bankrupt indorser of commercial paper, whose liability did not become absolute until after the filing of the petition in bankruptcy, may he proved against his estate after such liability has become fixed, and within the time limited for proving claims. By the first section of the bankrupt law, — the act of July 1, 1898, — it is declared that the word “debt,” as used in the act, shall include “any debt, demand, or claim provable in bankruptcy.” Section 63 declares what debts of the bankrupt may he proved…
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