Legal Opinion
In Re Kountze Bros.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided July 22, 1935No. 398PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SWAN, Circuit Judge.
Kountze Bros., a firm of private hankers, were adjudicated bankrupt on November 12, 1931, and Irving Trust Company was thereafter appointed trustee in bankruptcy. The reclamation petitions of the appellants, with few exceptions, assert claims of municipal corporations for moneys which they had forwarded to Kountze Bros, as their fiscal agents for the purpose of meeting payments of interest or principal upon bond issues. All the appellants allege that the moneys forwarded by them were received by Kountze Bros, in trust, were deposited in the bankrupts’ commercial account…
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