McLeod v. Mills

(After stating the foregoing facts.)

The principles of law announced in the first, second, and third headnotes are supported by the following authorities: 1 Collier on Bankruptcy (10th ed.), 285-300; Rosenthal v. Nove, 175 Mass. 559 (56 N. E. 884, 78 Am. St. R. 512); Rogers v. Abbot, 206 Mass. 270, 274 (92 S. E. 472, 138 Am. St. Rep. 394); In re Buchanan, 219 Fed. 492. In the case last cited it is said: “ It was not improper for the bankruptcy court to allow the suits to be prosecuted to judgment, as this would be a convenient way of liquidating the claims of the creditors, the amount of which…