In re Sugar Valley Gin Co.

SIBEEY, District Judge.

On the petition of one of twenty-two* alleged partners, the “Sugar Valley Gin Company only” was adjudged ‘bankrupt. Seven of the alleged partners denied that they were-partners; the others, being chiefly engaged in the tillage of the soil, objected to individual bankruptcy, but made no resistance to-the adjudication of the partnership. ' The case was referred generally to the referee, including the issue as to the partnership of the seven. The referee, presumably finding the partnership property to be insufficient to pay the partnership debts, has, after hearing,…