In re Chadwick

IRWIN, District Judge.

On the 23d of October, 1841, the bankrupts, Hanson S. Chadwick and Hart A. Leavitt, merchants of the city of Pittsburgh, made an assignment of all their estate, rights and credits, to assignees, in trust for certain preferred creditors; and on the 19th and 25th of March, following, they severally presented their petitions for the benefit of the bankrupt act, and *399were subsequently declared to be bankrupts. Tlieir petitions for discharge are opposed on the ground that the assignment was voluntarily given of all their property, rights and credits, in contemplation of…