In re Peck
District Court, D. Connecticut
In Bankruptcy. On questions certified by referee. The following proceedings were had before the referee, George A. Kellogg* on the petition of the bankrupt for discharge: “Specification of Objections to Discharge.
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In Bankruptcy. On questions certified by referee. The following proceedings were had before the referee, George A. Kellogg* on the petition of the bankrupt for discharge: “Specification of Objections to Discharge. “John B. Booth, of Burlington, Vermont, and the Berlin Mills Company,, a corporation organized under the laws of the state of Maine, and having an office and place of business in the city of Portland, Maine, parties interested in the estate of said H. H. Peck, bankrupt, do hereby oppose the granting to him of a discharge from his debts, and for the grounds of such, opposition do…
1Opinion of the Court
PLATT, District Judge.
I am in accord with the referee in his decision upon the so-called “demurrer” filed December 27, 1902. The sufficiency of the creditors’ objections to discharge, set forth in the paper filed December 20, 1902, is in no sense attacked in the misnamed demurrer. The label placed thereon by the bankrupt or his attorney is unimportant; its single purpose was to point out an alleged error in the way the objections were signed and verified. It was equivalent to saying to those creditors and their attorney something like this: “Laying aside the question as to whether your…
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