In re Prouty

By an order of the district court, made on the twenty-seventh day of December, 1884, the assignee of the bankrupt was removed upon the petition of certain creditors of the estate. The case has been brought here by the assignee upon a petition of review, seeking a reversal of that order. The argument of counsel for the assignee has largely been addressed to the point that some of the creditors, upon whose petition the proceeding was put in motion, did not have the requisite standing in the court below to entitle them to move; one of them being a secured creditor, who had proved without…