In re Penn
District Court, S.D. New York
[In the matter of John R. Penn, Charles V. Culver, and Lucien H. Culver, bankrupts. The proceedings in this case are first reported as heard upon motion of certain creditors to set aside the adjudication of bankruptcy theretofore rendered. Case No. 10,926.]
1Opinion of the Court
BLATCHFORD, District Judge.
On the application for the discharge of these bankrupts, the question of the jurisdiction of the court to entertain at all these proceedings in bankruptcy is raised. Specifications have been filed in opposition to the discharge of the bankrupts. Two of those specifications are addressed to the question of jurisdiction, and the case has been argued on that point alone preliminary.
On the 31st of December. 186S, the bankrupt Penn filed in this court a petition, addressed to the judge of this court, setting forth, “that the said John R. Penn is a co-partner in the firm…
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