In re Perkins

HOPKINS, District Judge.

The above-named bankrupts, who were adjudged such, on their own petition, in March, 1873, in January last filed a petition for their discharge. Parker & Stone, two of their creditors. opposed it, on the ground: 1st, that their assets did not amount to 50 per cent, of their debts; and, 2d, that they had not the assent of a sufficient number of their creditors. These objections, although filed before the recent amendments, were not brought to a hearing until after, and, as a matter of course, the first question which arose was as to tlie effect of those amendments. The…