In re Frischknecht
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Petition to Revise Order of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. This cause comes here from the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, on petition to review an order dated December 22,1914, denying a motion in bankruptcy proceedings to compel certain creditors of the bankrupt to release an attaching lien.
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Petition to Revise Order of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. This cause comes here from the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, on petition to review an order dated December 22,1914, denying a motion in bankruptcy proceedings to compel certain creditors of the bankrupt to release an attaching lien. On February 16, 1914, a petition in involuntary bankruptcy was filed against John Frisehknecht to have him adjudicated an involuntary bankrupt, and on May 4, 3914, he was duly adjudicated a bankrupt. Two days prior to…
1Opinion of the CourtRogers, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as above). The Bankruptcy Act provides two modes of procedure in the administration of a bankrupt’s estate. One of these modes authorizes the bankrupt after his adjudication to make a composition with his creditors. The bankrupt, after he has been examined in open court or at a meeting of his creditors.and after he has filed in court the schedule of his property and the list-.of thecreditors required to be filed by bankrupts, may offer terms of “composition” to his creditors. This he does by tendering a certain amount to the creditors in lieu of that which they would…
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