In re Kraft

Choate, 1). J.

This is an application for tbe discharge of Frederick W. Kraft, one of the bankrupts. The bankrupts constituted the firm of Beaman & Kraft, and carried on the business of leather dressers down to about the fourth day of January, 1876, when Beaman absconded and Kraft executed a general assignment for the benefit of creditors, without preferences. The estate of the copartnership was distributed under that assignment, and the remaining debts are chiefly the balances of the firm debts still unpaid. The petition of *524Kraft for the adjudication of the firm was filed August 10, 1878.

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