Simpson v. Van Etten

DALLAS, Circuit Judge.

Lester T. Smith and William Dusenherry, co-partners, were on March 21, 1899, upon the petition of certain of .their creditors, adjudged-to he bankrupts by the district court of the United States for the district of New Jersey. On April' 14, 1899, Ora C. Simpson, plaintiff in these cases, was appointed, and he now is, trustee of the said bankrupts. On December 21, 1897, John and James P. Van Etten, the defendants in one of the present suits, filed in the prothonotary’s office of a Pennsylvania court a judgment note of Smith & Dusenberry, dated December 20,1897, for the…