In re Harnden

POPE, District Judge.

The certificate of the referee as. to the question involved is as follows:

“Where it is shown that a creditor, at the time that he commenced his action, had reason to believe that his debtor was insolvent and was on the verge of bankruptcy, but, notwithstanding that fact, brings an action and runs up a large bill of costs and expenses immediately prior to the tiling of a petition in bankruptcy by his debtor, and, when it appears that the said action and proceedings were unreasonably costly and expensive, and were of no value to other creditors of the bankrupt, and did not…