Legal Opinion

In re Fell

District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania

Decided April 19, 1937No. 19488PublishedCited by 5 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

MARIS, District Judge.

This matter comes before us on a petition by Hiram M. Trauch to review an order of the referee disallowing his claim, against the bankrupt estate as a preferred claim. The referee allowed it as an unsecured claim. Trauch was an employee of the bankrupt. On May 23, 1936, he loaned the bankrupt ’the sum of $1,000 in cash and received from the bankrupt a note for that amount payable sixty days after date containing a confession of judgment in the customary judgment note form. At the bottom of the note below the signatures appeared the following notation : “Against Pleasant…

2Cases cited15 opinions

  1. Bailey v. Baker Ice MacHine Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1915
  2. Walker v. BrownSupreme Court of the United States · 1897
  3. Barnes v. AlexanderSupreme Court of the United States · 1914
  4. Ingersoll v. CoramSupreme Court of the United States · 1908
  5. Ketchum v. St. LouisSupreme Court of the United States · 1880

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3Cited by5 opinions

  1. In Re AsheCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1982
  2. McWilliams v. Gordon (In Re Camp Rockhill, Inc.)United States Bankruptcy Court, E.D. Pennsylvania · 1981
  3. In Re ChristieUnited States Bankruptcy Court, D. New Jersey · 1998
  4. Commonwealth National Bank v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1982
  5. In re SossDistrict Court, D. Delaware · 1943

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