Lindeke v. Converse
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Petition to Revise Order of the District Court of the United States for the District of Minnesota. Petition by Albert H. Lindeke and others, as Lindeke, Warner & Sons, to revise an order denying their motion to dismiss for want of prosecution the application of Julia D. Converse, bankrupt, for discharge.
1Opinion of the Court
SANBORN, Circuit Judge.
The question in this case is whether or not the facts presented to the court below on a motion of creditors of the bankrupt to dismiss her application for a discharge for want of prosecution presented lawful grounds for the grant of that motion. This question is raised by a petition to revise which is not challenged by demurrer or answer, and these are the material facts which it discloses: Julia D. Converse was adjudged a bankrupt on January 4, 1906. There was much litigation between her and her creditors until May 21, 1906, when the District Court denied an…
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