In re the City Contracting & Building Co.

The petition of four members of this co-partnership, for adjudication of the firm as a voluntary bankrupt, was signed by one of them with the words “For City Contracting & Building Company” written below his name; it was also verified by him in behalf of the company though in a form not approved for a case of this kind because, if verification by proxy be allowable at all, the showing of authority to verify for the other members was not distinct and unequivocal. Annexed to the petition were schedules of the assets and liabilities of the copartnership, but not of the individual members. After…