In re Codding
District Court, W.D. Pennsylvania
In Bankruptcy. Sur exceptions to register’s report, distributing fund from sale of real estate.
1Opinion of the Court
Acheson, D. J.
This contest is over a fund realized from the real estate of the bankrupts, sold by the assignee divested of liens. The claimants are Lawrence Butler and Matthew Jackson, two judgment creditors of the bankrupt firm on the one hand, and, on the other, the assignee in bankruptcy. The judgments are not assailed as unlawful preferences, but it is denied that they were liens against the real estate; and therefore the assignee claims the fund for the benefit of the general creditors of the firm.
No exceptions having been filed to the register’s findings of fact, their correctness will…
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