In re Dunnigan

LOWELL, District Judge.

The allegations in the petition have been established, and upon this point I find no reason to differ from the report of the referee, to whom the case was referred, under rule 12, to ascertain and report the facts. The only difficulty is created by the fact not stated in the petition, but properly set up in the answer, and not disputed, that one of the respondents, a member of the respondent firm, is a minor. Upon the whole, the authorities make it pretty clear that an infant cannot generally be made an involuntary bankrupt, and sound reasoning leads to the same result.…