Oil Well Supply Co. v. Hall
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of West Virginia, at Clarksburg, in Bankruptcy. This case comes up on appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of West Virginia, sitting in bankruptcy.
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Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of West Virginia, at Clarksburg, in Bankruptcy. This case comes up on appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of West Virginia, sitting in bankruptcy. The Oil Well Supply Company and the Jarecki Manufacturing Company, corporations of Pennsylvania, with the National Supply Company, a corporation of West Virginia, filed in the District Court their petition in bankruptcy against James F. Hall and. Curtis I. Hall, copartners as Hall Bros., charging them as being insolvent, and,…
1Opinion of the CourtSimonton, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as above). It is very clear that the case below was not submitted to the jury under the provisions of the nineteenth .section of the bankruptcy act (Act July 1, 1898, c. 541, 30 Stat. 551 [U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 3429]). The respondents did not demand a jury. Indeed, the record states that a jury was waived. But the District Judge, of his-own motion, and for his own satisfaction, desired the aid of a jury in passing upon the question whether an act of bankruptcy had been committed, as charged in the petition. It is always within the discretion of a judge to seek the…
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