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135 F. 448

Docket No. 1,687.

In re Marks Bros.

Pennsylvania Eastern District Court

Decided February 24, 1905.)

Pennsylvania Eastern District Court · decided 1905-02-24

<p>Bankruptcy—Involuntary Proceedings—New Trial.</p> <p>A new trial granted, on a petition in involuntary bankruptcy, on the ground of error in the court’s instructions.</p>

2 counsel of record

Relies on Clark v. Henne & Meyer

Decided 1905-02-24

¶1Bankruptcy—Involuntary Proceedings—New Trial.

¶2A new trial granted, on a petition in involuntary bankruptcy, on the ground of error in the court’s instructions.

¶3In Bankruptcy. On motion for new trial in involuntary proceedings.

¶4Samuel W. Cooper and Benjamin Alexander, for plaintiffs.

¶5William A. Carr, for defendants.

¶6HOLLAND, District Judge.

¶7The sixth reason for a new trial in this case is as follows:

“The learned trial judge erred in his charge to the jury wherein he charged them that it was necessary, in order for them to find a verdict for the respondents, to find that the petitioning creditors had secured control of the judgment of Frederick Geiger, under which the execution issued which was averred to be the act of bankruptcy.”

¶8Upon the authority of In re Williams, 14 N. B. R. 132, Fed. Cas. No. 17,706, Clark v. Henne, 11 A. B. R. 595, 127 Fed. 288, 62 C. C. A. 172, and Simonson v. Sinsheimer, 95 Fed. 954, 37 C. C. A. 337, it is clear that this part of the charge of the court is error, and a new trial is therefore granted.

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