In re Topliff

LOWELL, District Judge.

The bankrupts were stockbrokers. The creditor who seeks to prove was their customer. Four month* *324before adjudication, viz., on July 2, 1901, the bankrupts owed the creditor $1,550. Thereafter they were employed by him to purchase and' carry stocks on a margin. At times he paid them considerable sums of money, and at other times they paid considerable but smaller sums to him as profits on his operations. The last of their payments to him was subsequent to the last of his payments to them. At the date of the adjudication, November 2, 1901, they owed him about $6,500. The…