In re Mercur
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
In Bankruptcy. Separate petitions in involuntary bankruptcy were filed against Ulysses Mercur and Janies Watts Mercur, as individuals, and without reference to the fact that they were also partners under the firm name of J. W. Mercur & Co. Petitions having been filed by certain creditors of the partnership asking for leave to-join in the petitions against the individual partners, the cases came up for hearing on these applications and on the question of adjudication in…
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In Bankruptcy. Separate petitions in involuntary bankruptcy were filed against Ulysses Mercur and Janies Watts Mercur, as individuals, and without reference to the fact that they were also partners under the firm name of J. W. Mercur & Co. Petitions having been filed by certain creditors of the partnership asking for leave to-join in the petitions against the individual partners, the cases came up for hearing on these applications and on the question of adjudication in bankruptcy.
1Opinion of the Court
McPHERSON, District Judge.
In each of these cases only one creditor petitioned, the allegation being that the creditors of the bankrupt were less than 12 in number. The answer in each' case denied the allegation, averring that the number of creditors exceeded 12, and appending a list containing the names and addresses of more than 12 .such persons. Shortly afterwards, the Vulcanite Paving Company and the P. H. Fairlamb Company filed separate petitions, averring that they were creditors of the firm of J. W. Mercur & Co., consisting of James Watts Mercur and Ulysses Mercur, and asking to be…
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