Maplecroft Mills v. Childs
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Western District of South Carolina, at Greenville, in Bankruptcy; Henry A. M. Smith, Judge. In the matter of the Maplecroft Mills, alleged bankrupt. Such corporation was adjudged a bankrupt on petition of C. S. Childs and others, on the instructed verdict of a jury (218 Fed. 659), and brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
PRITCPIARD, Circuit Judge.
Petitioners, C. S. Childs and W. J. Fullerton, partners doing business as Wilson & Bradbury; Coal Creek Coal Company, a Tennessee corporation, arid Chas. J. Webb, doing business in Philadelphia as Chas. J. Webb & Co., brought their petition in September, 1914, seeking to. have Maplecroft Mills, a South Carolina corporation, declared an involuntary bankrupt. A single act of bankruptcy was alleged, to wit:
“That within four months preceding the filing of this petition, viz., on the 25th day of August, 1914, the said Maplecroft Mills, while insolvent, committed an act of…
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