Eastern Drug Co. v. Bieringer-Hanauer Co.

JOHNSON, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from the District Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts from a final decree adjudicating the General Drug Company, a Massachusetts corporation, bankrupt upon an involuntary petition filed on July 24, 1924.

The appellant, the Eastern Drug Company, is an intervening petitioner who had made an attachment of property of the bankrupt on July 17, 1924. The bankrupt filed no answer to the petition that it be adjudged a bankrupt; but the intervening creditor denied the insolvency of the bankrupt, and also that it had committed an act of…