In re Vetterlein

In September, 1871, a first dividend was declared in favor of creditors in the above matter, including the sum of $1,125, to the petitioner’s intestate, Thomas Hare, trustee. Warrants for all the dividends were executed, and most of them delivered. That to Hare, trustee, was not delivered, on account of some difficulty in the proper voucher to be given for it. Some considerable time afterwards the 'United States obtained a judgment for $99,-951 against the bankrupts upon a forfeiture of the value of goods fraudulently imported by them before the bankruptcy, and in January, 1886, commenced…