In re Little
District Court, S.D. New York
The discharge of [William H. Little] the bankrupt, in this case, was opposed by a creditor, who specified as one of the grounds of his opposition, that the bankrupt did not reside or carry on business, for the six months next immediately preceding the time of the filing of the petition for his discharge, in the Southern district of New Xork.
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The discharge of [William H. Little] the bankrupt, in this case, was opposed by a creditor, who specified as one of the grounds of his opposition, that the bankrupt did not reside or carry on business, for the six months next immediately preceding the time of the filing of the petition for his discharge, in the Southern district of New Xork. The petition, which was a voluntary one, was filed on the 10th of December, 1867, and described the bankrupt as “of the city of Elizabeth, in the county of Union, and state of New Jersey,” and stated that “he has had a place of business, and carried on…
1Opinion of the Court
BLATCHFORD, District Judge.
It is required by the eleventh section of the bankruptcy act [of 1SG7 (14 Stat. 521)], that the voluntary petition of a bankrupt shall be addressed to the judge of, and filed in, the judicial district in which the bankrupt has resided or carried on business for the six months next immediately preceding the time of filing such petition, or for the longest period during such six months. In the present case, the bankrupt resided in New Jersey, and he did not, in the sense of the act, carry on business in New York during any part of the six months. His firm were man-vft…
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