FEDERAL REPORTER.
In re
LETCHWORTH
and others. ST.
(District Oourt, N. D. New YOl"k. November, 1883.) BANKRUPTCy-MoRTGAGEE PROVING DEFICIENCY AFTER FORECLOSURE-REv.
Where a mortgage creditor of a bankrupt, after notice to the assignee, asks for and obtains lin order of the court allowing him to foreclose his mortgage by proceeding in the state court, the assignee oeing made a party and the complaint praying that the deficiency arising upon a sale of the mortgaged premises be ascertalned and plaintiff permitted to prove the same in bankruptcy, and no objection is made until the creditor files proof of the amount of delicieneyin the bankrupt court, his action will be considered a sufficient compliance with section 5075 of the Hevised Statutes. In 1'e Herrick, 17 N. B. R. 335, distinguished.
§ 5057.
In Bankruptcy. Charles F. Dttrston, for the assignee. Richard O. Steel, for the creditor. COXE, J. A mortgage creditor of the above-named bankrupt applied to this court, on the eighteenth day of May, 1875, for permission to foreclose, to make the assignee a party to the foreclosure proceedings, and to prove the deficiency arising on the sale as an unsecured debt against the estate of the bankrupt. Notice of this application was duly served on the assignee. The court thereupon made an order permitting the foreclosure of the mortgage and the sale of the mortgaged premises. An action was thereafter commenced in the supreme court of the state, the assignee being made a party defendant. The complaint prayed, inter alia, for a judgment that the deficiency arising upon a sale of the mortgaged premises be ascertained and that the plaintiff be permitted to prove the same in bankruptcy. Before the fore'closure sale, the mortgagee proved his debt as a secured credo itor, the proof stating all the foregoing facts. After the sale he filed a supplemental proof reciting the additional fact that there was a deficiency, amounting at the date of the bankruptcy to $789.28. The ai;lsignee asked fOf a re.examination of the proof, and the question arising upon his petition, and the answer of the creditor was, upon conceded facts, certified into court by the register. The question is-Were the creditor's proceedings so irregular as to preclude him from proving, debt for the deficiency? Section 5075 of the Re"ised Statutes provides: "When a creditor has a mortgage of real or personal property of the bankrupt, or a lien thereon for securing the payment of a debt OWing to him from the bankrupt, he shall be admitted as a creditor only for the balance of the debt, after deducting the value of such property to be ascertained by agreement between him and the assignee, or by sale thereof, to be made in such manner as the court shall direct," etc.
It is insisted by the assignee that the creditor has forfeited the right to prove his debt for the alleged reason that the,deficiency was not ascertained by a sale made pursuant to the directions of the dis-
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STATES V.ABRAMS.
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trict court. The Case of Herrick, 17 N. B. R. 885, is cited as sustain:. ing this view. There is, however, a marked distinction between the two cases. In the case at bar the assignee was, at the earliest mo· ment, informed that the creditor intended to prove his debt for the deficiency. The court, with the petition before it giving this notice, made an order allowing the suit to proceed in the state court, with the assignee as a party, and permitting the sale of the mortgaged property "on such foreclosure." In the original and supplemental proofs the same intention to prove the debt was expressed. With this timely information the assignee appears to have made no objection until after the second proof was filed. He was, apparently, en· tirelysatisfied with the creditor's proceedings to ascertain the defi· ciency; and made no suggestion that it should be determined in any different manner. In the Herrick Case, on the contrary, the court says: "It was not contemplated by the creditor, the assignee, or the court, that the action to foreclose was to be instituted for the purpose of a valuation of the security. * * * Doubtless, after an assignee has. bllEln appointed, this court could direct that the value of the creditor's security be ascertained by a sale under a decree of forecl08ure; but the ordinary order granting leave to bring suit to foreclose cannot 'be so construed." .
It can hardly be said in view of all the facts that the order here was" the ordinary order." 'rhe sale was, within the fair meaning of the section referred to, made in the manner the court directed. It be .unjust to permit the assignee, in such circumstances, to for the. first time after he has, by aliowing the creditorto proceed to the end ,without a suggestion of dissent, left hii:rl. enti!elyremediless. If the creditor had had the least intimationthat the present contention was to be nrged, he would quite likely baye applied to the COUtt for more specific directions regardingthe sale. Hearing no objection he relied upon the sufficiency of the order. Myopinion is that the claim is valid and that the proof should remain on file;
UNITED STATES 'V. ABRAMS.
(Ci/cuit Cowrt.8. D. New York.
December 18, 1883.)
COUNTERFEITING UNITED STATES COIN-REV. ST. § 5457-CoIN CAI,CULATED TO DECElVE-FuRTHIllR ACT TO BE DONE TO PERFEC1.' S:rURIOUB COIN.
A party who has made false coins with intent to circulate them, and has carried the manufacture so far as to produce coins capable of being uttered as . genuine coins, may be convicted of the offense described h:l Rev. I:)t.§ 5457, nothe intended to coat such coins with silver before putting them in. circulation. . BROWN,
Before WALLACE, BENEDICT, and
JJ.