In re Houghton

LOwELL, District Judge.

A creditor having the requisite qualifications filed his objections to the discharge of the bankrupt in due season, and now, after the time has passed for creditors to appear, another creditor asks leave to enter his appearance, and to be heard in support of those objections, if the original objector should decline to prosecute.

It is often highly expedient that such action should be taken, if it can legally be done. A judgment upon the question of the bankrupt’s right to his discharge is a sort . of judgment in rem, which establishes a status, that of a discharged or…