In re Russell Wheel & Foundry Co.
District Court, E.D. Michigan
In Bankruptcy. In the matter of the petition of Russell Wheel & Foundry Company and others to have the Detroit Body Company adjudicated a bankrupt. On motion to strike an answer from the files- and for an order of adjudication.
1Opinion of the Court
TUTTLE, District Judge.
On March 11, 1915, an involuntary petition was filed praying that the Detroit Body Company, a Michigan corporation, be adjudicated bankrupt. Aside from formal matters, the petitioners allege that they are creditors having provable claims, over and above securities held by them, aggregating $15,564.05; that the bankrupt is insolvent, and that on March 2, 1915, it committed an act .of bankruptcy, to wit:
“While insolvent admitted in writing its inability to pay its debts and its willingness to be adjudicated bankrupt on that ground.”
No other act of bankruptcy is alleged in…
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- In re Marine Machine & Conveyor Co.District Court, S.D. New York · 1899
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