In re Eastern Commission & Importing Co.

LOWELL, District Judge.

Pending adjudication upon an involuntary petition, a receiver appointed by the court of bankruptcy filed a petition alleging as follows: That within four months a creditor had brought suit in the state court against the respondent in bankruptcy, and had obtained or threatened to obtain an attachment upon its property ; that, in order to prevent the execution of the threat or to dissolve the attachment, the debtor had given a bond, with surety, and to protect the surety had pledged its property to him in order to secure him from loss; that the suit was based on a debt…