In re Bacon
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Petition to Review Order of the District Court of the United States for the Western District of New York, in Bankruptcy. This cause comes here upon petition to review an order of the District Court affirming an order of the referee in bankruptcy which held that the title to certain property was in the bankrupt, instead of the claimant, his wife Pauline M. Bacon.
1Opinion of the Court
LACOMBE, Circuit Judge.
The property consisted of a certificate of stock for 200 shares of Steel common, a certificate for 100 shares of Southern Railway, and a check of Haven & Clement, brokers in New York City, for $2,053.69. The certificates stood in the name of third parties, and transfer thereof had been executed in blank. The name of the bankrupt was filled in, for safety in transmission, when the brokers sent them to him in April, 1904. The check was to his order and represented a balance of account which the brokers had carried on for some time in his name, immediately upon receipt of…
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