In re Hopper-Morgan Co.
District Court, N.D. New York
In Bankruptcy. Review of order of Joseph B. Atwell, Esq., referee in bankruptcy, disallowing the claim of First National Bank of Northampton Mass., on a note of $5,000 made by said bankrupt, Hopper-Morgan Company, dated the 4-th day of April, 1905, and which note was given without consideration, as an accommodation, and not in the business of said maker, a corporation.
1Opinion of the Court
RAY, District Judge.
At the times mentioned the bankrupt, Hopper-Morgan Company, was a business corporation organized and existing under the laws of the state of New York, engaged in the business of making and selling writing tablets and-other similar paper products. It had its principal office and factory in the city of Watertown, N. Y., but at one time maintained an office in the city of New York, where Roger Morgan, its treasurer, resided and had an office at the times in question. The authorized capital stock of the company was $200,000, only $150,000 of which was issued. Roger Morgan and…
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