Stephens v. Merchants' Nat. Bank of Aurora

GROSSCUP, Circuit Judge.

Upon a petition filed January 2nd', 1906, by the Merchants National Bank of Aurora, appellee, against the appellant, charging that the appellant was then insolvent, and that he had committed various acts of bankruptcy within section three of tfie Bankruptcy Act of July 1, 1898 (30 Stat. 546, 547, c. 541 [U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 3422]) and the answer of the appellant thereto confessing that he was insolvent, and that he had committed the acts of bankruptcy, but averring that he was a person not amenable to the bankruptcy law of the United States, by reason of the fact…