Fisher v. Currier

SPRAGUE, District Judge.

This is a petition to have Currier and Smith declared bankrupts. It is resisted on the ground that they have committed no act of bankruptcy. One act relied upon by the petitioners is an attachment, or rather attachments, of all the stock in trade of the respondents, made on the 19th of March last, on two writs, one In favor of Benjamin Smith, the father; and the other in favor of Benjamin Smith, Junior, the brother of Hambleton E. Smith, one of the respondents. There is some discrepancy in the testimony; but I think the following facts are proved. Currier and Smith are…