In re Cockshaw

AUGUSTUS N. HAND, District Judge.

The master reports that an offer of 25 per cent, in composition is* insufficient. The bankrupt, after the composition was offered, and during the proceeding before the master, enlarged his offer to 30 per cent, and asks that his original offer be thus amended, and that the court send back to the master for determination the single question as to whether the amended offer is proper and advantageous to the creditors. The bankrupt urges, as an excuse for asking leave to amend, that prior to his offer of 25 per cent, he was not given such access to the property in…