In re Risteen

LOWEDU, District Judge.

This was an involuntary petition against the proprietor and manager of the Copley Square Hotel, situated in Boston, arid containing 180 rooms, where the respondent had his usual place of abode. On March 2, 1903, at the time the officer went to the hotel, the respondent was lying ill and unconscious in Newton, where he had been for several days. The officer handed the subpoena and copy of the petition to the clerk of the hotel, who informed the officer that the respondent was not there, but was at Newton, and that he would give the papers to him. The respondent never…