In re Ballard
District Court, N.D. Texas
In Bankruptcy. In the matter of Elijah F. Ballard, bankrupt. On review of an order of the referee. The opinion of E. M. Baker, Referee in Bankruptcy, was as follows: Elijah !•'. Ballard was adjudged a voluntary bankrupt on the 4th day of February, 3919. At the first creditors’ meeting W. J. Lawther was elected trustee, and qualified by giving the required bond.
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In Bankruptcy. In the matter of Elijah F. Ballard, bankrupt. On review of an order of the referee. The opinion of E. M. Baker, Referee in Bankruptcy, was as follows: Elijah !•'. Ballard was adjudged a voluntary bankrupt on the 4th day of February, 3919. At the first creditors’ meeting W. J. Lawther was elected trustee, and qualified by giving the required bond. The following property vested in the trustee: A flour mill at Oedar Hill, Tex., and also a flour mill at Lancaster, Tex., both places in Dallas‘county, and for about five years just prior to bankruptcy Ballard had been the general…
1Opinion of the Court
MEEK, District Judge.
This is a review of an order made by Hon. E. M. Baker, referee in bankruptcy of the Dallas division, wherein and by which he fixes the rights of classes of claimants and also individual claimants against the estate of the bankrupt, Elijah F. Ballard. The peí itions for review include what are in fact several made by W. J. Lawther, trustee of the estate; that of E. R. Cox et al.; that of Farmers’ & Merchants’ Bank of Cedar Hill and M. O. Durrett, its receiver; and that of Oak Cliff State Bank & Trust Company. By agreement of the parties the causes were consolidated, heard…
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