Milliken v. Morey
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On exceptions. This was a petition brought under R. S., c. 70, § 25, in the Insolvent Court, for Androscoggin County, by creditors of the Dennison Paper Manufacturing Company, insolvent, and to obtain a decree expunging the claim of $134,815.07 proved by Morey & Company, against the insolvent’s estate. The petition alleged that said Morey & Company had accepted an unlawful preference. The procedure in the case is stated in the opinion.
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On exceptions. This was a petition brought under R. S., c. 70, § 25, in the Insolvent Court, for Androscoggin County, by creditors of the Dennison Paper Manufacturing Company, insolvent, and to obtain a decree expunging the claim of $134,815.07 proved by Morey & Company, against the insolvent’s estate. The petition alleged that said Morey & Company had accepted an unlawful preference. The procedure in the case is stated in the opinion. The view taken by the court renders it unnecessary to report the issues raised upon the petition and answer by the parties, in the insolvent court, where a pro…
1Opinion of the CourtHaskell, J.
The appellants petitioned the court of insolvency in Androscoggin county to expunge the appellee’s proof’ of debt against the insolvent’s estate. To the petition, appellees filed their answer, and proofs were taken, whereupon the judge *341of insolvency, on the 29th of April, 1892, decreed pro forma, that the petition be dismissed. Two days afterward, April 30th, an appeal was taken by the petitioners "to the Supreme Judicial Court now holden at Auburn within and for said county of Androscoggin, to which term said appeal is to be taken in accordance with the stipulation of parties of record in…
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- Cleveland v. QuiltyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1880
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