In re Baxter

Brown, D. J.

This is a petition- by Brown Bros. & Co. for leave to withdraw their proofs of debt heretofore made upon two bills of exchange drawn by Archibald Baxter & Co. upon Jones Bros., of London, at 60 days’ sight, — the one dated August 5, 1875, for £2,500, payable to the order of Brown, Shipley & Co.; the other dated August 6, 1875, for £1,000, payable to the same payees, — which were drawn against the “account of cheese per Britannic, and lard per Greece;” which bills had been purchased by the petitioners on the day of their date. On the seventh day of August, 1875, Baxter & Co.…