In re Wm. S. Butler & Co.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Appeals from the District Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts; James M. Morton, Jr., Judge. In the matter of bankruptcy proceedings against William S. Butler & Co., Incorporated. From a decree adjudging the corporation a bankrupt, the corporation, its receivers, and certain intervening creditors appeal.
1DissentPutnam, Circuit Judge
The burden of the- litigation in this case is over the definitions given to the words “insolvent” and “insolvency” incorporated in the Bankruptcy Statutes by the amendment of 1903, so far as they relate to these appeals. A careful perusal of text-books and of the decisions of the courts bearing on the definitions to be given these words as applied here fails to show any authority for giving the peculiar definition to the words in question as applied here, except the Golden Malt Co., 164 Fed. 326, 90 C. C. A. 258. This case was much like many of the early decisions with reference to the…
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- Duncan v. LandisCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1901
- Hooks v. AldridgeCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1906
- In re Hudson River Electric Power Co.District Court, N.D. New York · 1909
- Blue Mountain Iron & Steel Co. v. PortnerCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1904
- In re SpaldingCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1905
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