In re Hurlbutt, Hatch & Co.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Petition for Revision of Proceedings of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.
1Opinion of the Court
TOWNSEND, Circuit Judge.
The petitioner was a member of the firm of Hurlbutt, Hatch & Co., bankrupts. Henry B. Ketcham, trustee in bankruptcy of said firm, claimed that a seat in the New York Stock Exchange, standing in the name of said Hatch, was copartnership property, worth $68,000, which passed to the trustee and could be sold by him, yet that, owing to the custom and rules of the stock exchange, it could not be advantageously sold so as to be available for the satisfaction of the claims of the firm’s creditors, unless its sale should be requested by Hatch, but that, if he would execute…
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