In re Milne, Turnbull & Co.
District Court, S.D. New York
In Bankruptcy. On petition to review referee’s order appointing a trustee upon failure of a majority of creditors (in number and value) to elect such officer.
1Opinion of the Court
HOUGH, District Judge.
This proceeding is an instance of the truth of the remarks of Judge Thomas in Re Sumner (D. C.) 101 Fed. 224. A receiver being in charge of this estate, the election of a trustee has been prolonged through several sessions of the creditors’ meeting in order to ascertain whether the proxies controlled by one firm of attorneys would or would not be sufficient to determine the selection of a trustee. It is obvious upon the record submitted that the real contest was not between creditors as to who should be the trustee, hut between attorneys as to who should be the counsel…
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- Mathews v. HardtAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1903
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