Jones v. Burnham, Williams & Co.

ACHESON, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal by Frank C. Jones from a judgment of the District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania adjudging the appellant a bankrupt in an involuntary proceeding in bankruptcy instituted by creditors of C. F. Beckwith & Co. against C. F. Beckwith and Frank C. Jones as alleged partners, trading as C. F. Beckwith & Co. To the creditors’ petition Jones put in an answer under oath denying the alleged partnership. Whether, as charged in the creditors’ petition, a partnership in fact existed between C. F. Beckwith and Frank C. Jones, trading as C. F. Beckwith…