In re Richardson

BLATCHFORD, District Judge.

The pe-tioners reside in New Orleans. They hare been adjudged bankrupts by the district court of the United States for . the district of Louisiana. They now present a petition to this court, setting forth that one Withers has brought a suit against them in the supreme court of New York, in the nature of an action in debt to recover $24,032.71 on two promissory notes made by the petitioners, payable to the said plaintiff or order; that the petitioners have appeared in said suit, and put in an answer denying any indebtedness to the plaintiff on the notes; and that the…