Robinson v. Clement
Indiana Supreme Court
Appeal from Vanderburgh Circuit Court. cited Bump on Composition in Bankruptcy p. 20 and cases there collected; National Bank v. Porter, 122 Mass. 308; Gould v. Butler, 122 Mass. 500, as to effect of not fulfilling composition agreement. (in reply) cited, Melhado v. Watson, L. R. 2 C. P. Div. 281; Bump on Comp. 18; Woolsey v. Hagan, 124 Mass. 497, as to disputing a creditor’s claim and yet compounding for it; Ex parte Peacock L. R. 8, Ch. 686 ; In re.
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Appeal from Vanderburgh Circuit Court. cited Bump on Composition in Bankruptcy p. 20 and cases there collected; National Bank v. Porter, 122 Mass. 308; Gould v. Butler, 122 Mass. 500, as to effect of not fulfilling composition agreement. (in reply) cited, Melhado v. Watson, L. R. 2 C. P. Div. 281; Bump on Comp. 18; Woolsey v. Hagan, 124 Mass. 497, as to disputing a creditor’s claim and yet compounding for it; Ex parte Peacock L. R. 8, Ch. 686 ; In re. Trafton, 14 B. R. 507; Blumenstiel p. 416, as to effect of debtor’s statement in regard to a non-assenting and absent creditor, in case of…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion of the court by
Mr. Chief Justice Ki black.
In this case Andrew L. Robinson, the plaintiff, complained of Converse Clement, the defendant, and said that, on the 24th day of December, 1874, he recovered a judgment in the Vanderburgh Circuit Court against the defendant for three thousand and five hundred dollars, with costs of suit; that afterwards, on the 26th day of the same month, the defendant began certain proceedings in bankruptcy in the District Court of the United States for the district of Indiana, at Evansville, by means whereof, he was, on the same day, adjudged to be bankrupt;…
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