Ex parte Farnsworth

LOWELL, District Judge.

The industry of the learned counsel on either side has failed to discover decisions under any bankrupt or insolvent law of this country directly in point, and both have resorted to the English cases. As I have often observed the cases in either country and especially in England must be used with great care, because our-’ statute is more or less different from all the others, and more widely from the English than from some of the American statutes. At the same time it is impossible to understand our bankrupt act [of 1867 (14 Stat. 517)] fully without some knowledge of…