In re Holmes

In this matter the alleged bankrupts were copartners. One of them filed a petition in bankruptcy in this court, on behalf of himself and against his copartner, for the adjudication of both of them as bankrupts in respect of their copartnership debts and of the individual debts of each of them.

There has been no adjudication of bankruptcy, but both of the copartners have united in an application under which proceedings for a composition are pending, under the seventeenth section of the act of June 22, 1874. A first meeting of creditors having been called by the court, to take place at the…