Wingert v. President Directors and Co. of Hagerstown Bank

PARKER, Circuit Judge.

These are appeals in six cases in whieh William Wingert, Miller Wingert, Lewis P. Wingert, Martha A. Wingert, the Hagerstown Silk Company, and the Antietam Knitting Company were adjudged bankrupts in the court below. As the cases grow out of the same facts, they will be considered together. On October 18, 1927, involuntary petitions in bankruptcy were filed against each of the persons named, and also against Henry P. Wingert, the act of bankruptcy alleged in each case being that the respondent, while insolvent, suffered and permitted judgments to be obtained against him,…