Stringer v. Stevenson
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeals from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. In the matter of G. Franklin Stringer, individually and as sole surviving partner of Stringer & Co., bankrupt.
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Appeals from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. In the matter of G. Franklin Stringer, individually and as sole surviving partner of Stringer & Co., bankrupt. From decrees allowing the claims of the H. J. Lewis Oyster Company and of H. Leroy Lewis as claims against the firm assets, the trustee, J. Gardner Stevenson, appeals; and from a decree allowing the claim of Mary F. Lewis in part only as a claim against the firm assets, both the claimant and the trustee appeal. Decrees (234 Fed. 454) modified, and claims allowed only against individual assets.
1Opinion of the Court
ROGERS, Circuit Judge.
The trustee of the bankrupt’s estate has brought here appeals from three separate decrees allowing certain claims against that estate. These claims are:(1) A claim of Mrs. Mary E. Lewis. Proof of debt was filed .in the office of the referee in bankruptcy on November 22, 1915, in the sum of $64,314.71. This was reduced by stipulation to the sum of $62,-033.04. The referee allowed the claim in that amount against the estate of the bankrupt, as sole surviving partner of Stringer & Co., and the said firm of Stringer & Co. The trustee thereupon objected on various grounds,…
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