In re Faulkner
Decision Date | 04 May 1908 |
Docket Number | 87. |
Citation | 161 F. 900 |
Parties | In re FAULKNER. |
Court | U.S. Court of Appeals — Eighth Circuit |
The question involved in this petition to revise is whether two certain claims of the petitioner, Faulkner, against the estate of Charles J. Devlin, bankrupt, should have been allowed and permitted to participate in the assets of the estate of the bankrupt. The referee and the judge of the District Court for the District of Kansas ruled adversely to the petitioner, and that is the ruling we are asked to revise. Devlin was adjudicated a bankrupt on July 7, 1905 and some efforts followed to secure a settlement with his creditors. These efforts proved ineffectual, and shortly before the year expired after the date of the adjudication within which claims could be proven against the estate (Bankr. Act July 1, 1898, c. 541, Sec. 57n, 30 Stat. 561 (U.S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 3444)), on June 20, 1906, the petitioner filed with the referee a paper, signed and sworn to by him, as follows:
On July 5, 1906, the referee made a finding and order, the concluding parts of which are as follows:
Pursuant to the terms of the order the collateral was sold for the aggregate sum of $7,700, and a report of sale was made to the referee. On July 18, 1906, the sale was confirmed by the referee, and $7,600 out of the proceeds were ordered to be credited upon the note of $7,500 and interest, and $100 were ordered to be credited upon the note of $2,500. Afterwards and on the same day, the petitioner filed with the referee his three affidavits, and on the which is as follows: ...
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