In re Duncan

BLATCHFORD, District Judge.

In this case, on the ISth of December, 1S70, a petition in involuntary bankruptcy was presented to and filed in this court, praying that William Butler Duncan, William Watts .Sherman and Francis H. Grain, copart-ners under the firm name of Duncan, .Sherman & Co., be adjudged bankrupts. The petition purported to be the petition of 205 creditors. It set forth the claims of those creditors, and was signed by them. It was properly verified. It averred that the debtors resided in the city of New York, and had carried on business in this district for more than six months…