In re Gay & Sturgis
District Court, D. Massachusetts
In Bankruptcy. In the matter of the bankruptcy of Gay & Sturgis.
1Opinion of the Court
MORTON, District Judge.
The facts essential to the consideration of the questions of law upon which the case turns are not in dispute and are as follows:
The bankrupts were stockbrokers in Boston. They made a common-law assignment on April 21, 1914, and were adjudicated bankrupt on an involuntary petition filed May 22, 1914. The various claimants (in whose behalf the present petition is presented by a receiver appointed by the state court to act in their interests) were customers of the bankrupts, buying and selling through them on margin. As collateral security for tlieir several accounts,…
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