In re Smith
District Court, S.D. New York
[In the matter of John Ogden Smith, a bankrupt.] 2 [Mr. G. De Forest Lord moved to show cause why this case should not be removed from the hands of Mr. John Fitch, qpe of the registers in bankruptcy, at present having charge of the matter, and sent to some other register.
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[In the matter of John Ogden Smith, a bankrupt.] 2 [Mr. G. De Forest Lord moved to show cause why this case should not be removed from the hands of Mr. John Fitch, qpe of the registers in bankruptcy, at present having charge of the matter, and sent to some other register. Mr. Lord, in support of the motion, read several affidavits setting forth the gravamen of the complaint against the register; that Mr. Fitch, to whom the case of John Ogden Smith, a bankrupt, was referred, improperly sought by misrepresentation to get one Isaac M. Andruss appointed assignee for the estate of the bankrupt.…
1Opinion of the Court
BLATCHFORD, District Judge.
This is a case of involuntary bankruptcy, in which an adjudication of bankruptcy was made by the court on the 17th of December, 1867. The order of .adjudication referred the case to one of the registers in bankruptcy of the court,' by name, to take such proceedings thereon as are required by the act. On the same day a warrant was issued, which appointed the 15th day of January, 1868, at the office of such register, as the day for the meeting of the creditors of the bankrupt to *383prove tlieir debts and choose one or more assignees of his estate. An application is now…
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