In re Ledbetter
District Court, N.D. Georgia
In Bankruptcy. In the matter of W. F. Ledbetter, bankrupt. On review of order of referee.
1Opinion of the Court
SIBLEY, District Judge.
Facts are stipulated as follows: First National Bank of Livonia, holding a note for a debt and interest “and all costs of collection, including 10 per cent, as attorney’s fees,” secured by a deed to land, gave 10 days’ notice in writing of intention to sue at a named term of a named state court, and filed the suit in the forenoon of September 4, 1917. At 5 :30 p. m. of same day the defendant filed his voluntary petition in bankruptcy. The bank sought to prove as a secured claim its note for principal, interest, attorney’s fees/'and court costs inctirred in the suit. The…
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