Legal Opinion
In re Capitol Trading Co.
District Court, N.D. New York
Decided February 21, 1916PublishedCited by 5 opinions
In Bankruptcy. In the matter of the Capitol Trading Company, Incorporated, bankrupt. On review of action and order of Referee Edwin A. King in refusing, for want of a revenue stamp, to file certain letters of attorney and allow the attorneys designated in such letters or powers of attorney, respectively, to cast the vote of Mrs. E. I. Stewart and 159 other alleged creditors of the bankrupt, respectively, for trustee in a bankruptcy proceeding then pending.
1Opinion of the Court
RAY, District Judge.
The power of’attorney or letter of attorney contained in the proof of claim of Mrs. Stewart reads as follows:
“Letter of Attorney to Mills & Mills, Attorney at Law.
“You or any one of you are hereby authorized by said creditor by the person making the foregoing deposition, who is duly authorized thereto, to appear for and represent said creditor and vote for said creditor in any proceedings, or meetings, which may be had or called in the above-entitled proceeding, in court, before the referee in bankruptcy, or elsewhere, and particularly to vote for said creditor in the…
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