In re Anderson
District Court, E.D. Virginia
In bankruptcy. This cause came twice before the district court. On the first of the two occasions the facts were as follows, on which the decision of 16th March, 1874, affirmed 30th November, 1874, was based: Anderson filed his petition in this court on the 29th December, 1868; on the 26th January, 1869, he was adjudicated a bankrupt by the register.
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In bankruptcy. This cause came twice before the district court. On the first of the two occasions the facts were as follows, on which the decision of 16th March, 1874, affirmed 30th November, 1874, was based: Anderson filed his petition in this court on the 29th December, 1868; on the 26th January, 1869, he was adjudicated a bankrupt by the register. In his schedules he surrendered large real estate in Montgomery county, including his interest in a tract of 1200 acres of land on Mill creek, inherited by his wife, Sarah J. Anderson, from her father. The debts shown by bis schedules amounted to…
1Opinion of the Court
HUGHES, District Judge.
Upon the facts as they have been recited I have to say as foEows:
The written agreement of 20th December, 1S72, cannot bind the bankrupt’s estate; first, because it was not signed by the assignee; and second, because the signature of George W. Anderson, who was civiliter mortuus, was a nuEity so far as the estate was concerned.
There is nothing in the point made by the commissioners in their answer, that Anderson signed the agreement after he received his discharge. By the very language of that paper, he was only “discharged of and from aE debts provable against his…
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