In re Morris
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
On the 28th of July, 1801, a commission, of bankruptcy, under the act of 4th April, 1800 (1 Story’s Laws, 732 [1 Stat 19]), was issued from the district court for the district of Pennsylvania, against Bobert Morris; after various ' preliminary proceedings, and the proof of sundry debts, amounting in the whole to about three millions of dollars, the commissioners executed an assignment to John B. Smith, John Craig, and Nathan Field, on the 8th December, 1801, they having been…
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On the 28th of July, 1801, a commission, of bankruptcy, under the act of 4th April, 1800 (1 Story’s Laws, 732 [1 Stat 19]), was issued from the district court for the district of Pennsylvania, against Bobert Morris; after various ' preliminary proceedings, and the proof of sundry debts, amounting in the whole to about three millions of dollars, the commissioners executed an assignment to John B. Smith, John Craig, and Nathan Field, on the 8th December, 1801, they having been elected assignees by the creditors. All proceedings then ceased, and, up to the year 1825, no action of any kind was…
1Opinion of the Court
HOPKINSON, District Judge.
On the 28th day of July, 1801. a commission of bankruptcy was issu'ed by the district judge for the Pennsylvania district, against Bobert Morris, directed to John Haliowell, Joseph Hopkinson, and Thomas Cumpston, commissioners. The bankrupt being duly summoned, surrendered himself to the commissioners, and submitted himself to be examined; the commissioners having previously declared the said Bobert Morris a bankrupt. On the 6th day of August the commissioners received proof of sundry debts. On the 26th of August proof of debts was received from about twenty-one…
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