In re Welman
United States District Court
This was a petition by Deluis Welman, representing himself to be unable to meet his debts and engagements, and praying for the benefit of the bankrupt law. The petition was filed March 3,1843, and no proceedings having been had upon it, in consequence of the clerk’s refusing to issue the usual order, the petitioner filed his motion for an order of notice to creditors and others to show cause, why he should not be declared a bankrupt.
1Opinion of the CourtPrentiss, J.
In the matter of David Howes, 6 Law Reporter 297, it was determined by this court, that a petition for the benefit of the bankrupt law, presented and filed on the 3d of March, the day the law was repealed, was too late, and that no order could be *654taken upon the petition other than to dismiss it. An opposite decision having been recently pronounced in a neighboring circuit, I am now called upon to re-examine the question; and I can very freely say, that it is not at all a subject of regret, that an opportunity is thus afforded me to review my former opinion, and to overrule it, if found to…
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