Owen v. Brown

CALDWELL, Circuit Judge.

On the 14th day of April, 1902, the appellants filed their petition in the District Court of the United States for the district of Colorado to have the appellee adjudged a bankrupt. The petition was based on the act of bankruptcy defined in the third subdivision of section 3a of the bankrupt act (Act July 1, 1898, c. 541, 30 Stat. 546 [U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 3422]), and alleged, in substance, that the appellee, Brown, was insolvent, and that within four months next preceding the filing of the petition he had committed an act of bankruptcy by suffering and permitting,…