Legal Opinion

In re Golder

District Court, D. Maine

Decided February 15, 1876Published

. In bankruptcy. [In the matter of Dwight C. Golder & Co.] Petition by the assignee to expurge and disallow certain debts proved before Mr. Register Fessenden.

1Opinion of the Court

FOX, District Judge.

This is a petition by the assignee of this firm for a disallowance of two claims proved against the joint estate by J. W. Stevenson, one founded on a note for $1,500, bearing date October 30,1873, payable in ten months to the creditor, and signed In the firm name by Golder. This note although made and executed at its date, was not delivered until some months after-wards, when the firm was deeply insolvent. In his proof of debt, Stevenson makes affi*548davit that “the consideration of this note was money loaned by him to the firm at its date, at their request;” but this is now…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Wood v. PennellSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1863

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