In re Salkey
District Court, N.D. Illinois
In bankruptcy. Motion to commit bank-i-upts [Samuel Salkey and Joseph Gerson] for contempt in not accounting for assets.
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In bankruptcy. Motion to commit bank-i-upts [Samuel Salkey and Joseph Gerson] for contempt in not accounting for assets. On the 8th *of October, 1873, certain creditors of Salkey & Gerson filed their petition asking that they be adjudicated bankrupts; and on the 23d of December a trial was had upon the issues in the case, denying the acts of bankruptcy charged, and a verdict rendered, finding the debtors guilty of the several acts of bankruptcy charged, upon which they were adjudicated bankrupt in due form. Pending the proceedings, and before the trial, on the application of the provisional…
1Opinion of the Court
BLODGETT, District Judge.
This motion has been taken under advisement, and carefully considered, because of the importance of the question involved, bearing not only upon the rights and interests of these men. but upon .the general administration of the bankrupt law.
By the 26th section of the bankrupt law it is provided: “That the court may, on the application of the assignee in bankruptcy, or of any creditor, or without any application, at all times require the bankrupt, upon reasonable notice, to attend and submit, to an examination on oath, upon all matters relating to the disposal or…
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- In re GerstelDistrict Court, S.D. Illinois · 1903
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