In re Becket
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Louisiana
In bankruptcy. A creditor of the bankrupt applied to the circuit judge, during a vacancy in the office of district judge, for further time to file specifications of his grounds of opposition to the discharge of the bankrupt.
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In bankruptcy. A creditor of the bankrupt applied to the circuit judge, during a vacancy in the office of district judge, for further time to file specifications of his grounds of opposition to the discharge of the bankrupt. The application was resisted by solicitors for the bankrupt, on the ground that the bankrupt had proposed a composition to his creditors, which had been accepted at a meeting of the creditors and approved by the court, in compliance with the provisions of the act approved June 22, 1874, [§ 17, (18 Stat. 183.)]
1Opinion of the Court
WOODS, Circuit Judge.
This motion for further time to state grounds of objection to the bankrupt’s discharge, as well as the application for the discharge itself, seems to bo founded on a misconception of the effect of a composition under the act of June 22, 1874, {§ 17, (18 Stat 183.)] When a proposition for composition has been made and accepted by a meeting of creditors and approved by the court, and the terms complied with by the debtor, he is discharged from the claims of all creditors whose names and addresses, and the amounts of the debts due to whom, are shown in the statement of the…
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