In re Shaw
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
In Bankruptcy. On certificate from referee concerning disallowance of claim of F. F. Kaufman.
1Opinion of the Court
J. B. McPHERSON, District Judge.
The referee was right in refusing to consider the testimony of the claimant in support of the items of his account. The bankrupt was dead, and by virtue of section 5, cl. “e,” of the Pennsylvania statute of 1887 (P. L. 158), the witness had become incompetent to testify upon this subject. Neither had he been made competent by virtue of the provisions of section 7 of the same statute. The trustee did not call him for cross-examination upon the items of his claim, but for examination concerning a transfer of property made to him by the bankrupt within four months…
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