Meinhard, Schaul & Co. v. Folsom Bros.

The plaintiffs in error filed a petition against .Folsom Brothers as a partnership, to recover the sum of $20'0, which they alleged was due to them on an oral promise made December 12, 1905. The defendants had been adjudged bankrupts on a voluntary petition. A composition proposed by them was confirmed by his honor Judge Emory Speer of the southern district of Georgia, on the same day that the promise to pay the $200 is-alleged to have been made. Attached to' the petition, as a part thereof, is a statement of account evidencing a prior indebtedness by the defendants to the plaintiffs and the…