Bullions ex rel. Swan & Clifford v. Loring Bros.

The decision of the court was delivered by

Judge Robertson.

*210This matter comes before us on appeal from a decision of the Commissioners in Bankruptcy on the estate of Swan & Clifford, of Honolulu. This is the first appeal that has been taken under the statute passed by the legislature of 1855, allowing appeals to this court from the decisions of Commissioners in bankruptcy.

It appears that the commissioners, by virtue of the power vested in them by the 11th section of the “ Act relating to Bankruptcy,” passed in 1848, appointed Mr. A. B. Bates to represent the interests of the appellees, Messrs.…