Chicago Motor Vehicle Co. v. American Oak Leather Co.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Northern Division of the Northern District of Illinois. This appeal is from an adjudication of involuntary bankruptcy against the Chicago Motor Vehicle Co., appellant, entered in the District Court February 3. 1905, upon report of a referee, as special master, and hearing upon exceptions.
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Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Northern Division of the Northern District of Illinois. This appeal is from an adjudication of involuntary bankruptcy against the Chicago Motor Vehicle Co., appellant, entered in the District Court February 3. 1905, upon report of a referee, as special master, and hearing upon exceptions. Petition by three creditors for such adjudication was filed October 12, 1903, averring insolvency of the appellant and the commission of acts of bankruptcy within four months. It specified three instances of alleged preference within four months,…
1Opinion of the CourtSeaman, Circuit Judge
The only questions arising upon this appeal are a single one of bankruptcy practice and two issues of fact. Error is assigned upon various rulings of the referee in the admission or rejection of testimony, and these rulings are pressed in the argument for reversal; but we are of opinion that no reversible error appears in either, and that neither of such assignments touches the merits of the controversy or justifies discussion. While the question of practice is complicated in the methods pursued by both parties to the controversy, its solution is free from difficulty when the proceedings are…
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