In re Miller & Brown (2)

ARCHBALD, District Judge.

The general principles which govern in cases of this character have been discussed in disposing of the petition of the Magee Carpet Co., 135 Fed. 868, and do not need to be repeated here. The facts upon which the case turns are not disputed. About October 1,1904, in the absence of Mr. Brown, the member of the firm who did the buying, Mr. Pollock, one of the petitioners, called at the store of the bankrupts in Lewisburg, Pa., and solicited an order for ribbons. Mr. Miller, the other member of the firm, who was present, authorized the young lady in charge of that…