Phillips v. Dreher Shoe Co.

ARCHBARD, District Judge.

On September 16, 1901, H. R. Phillips and nine others, all of Selins Grove, Pa., filed a creditors’ petition against W. A. Dreher and Floyd A. Wetherby, trading as the Dreher Shoe Company, of the same place, to have them declared bankrupts on the ground that they were insolvent, and had made an assignment for the benefit of creditors. In the petition they set forth that they were creditors of the said company having provable claims amounting in the aggregate to $1,000, each of the petitioners being an indorser or surety upon one of a series of ten notes for $100 each,…