Armstrong v. Fisher
Opinion of the Court
George H. Fleischman and T. E. Armstrong were partners as Armstrong & Fleischman. Fleischman filed a petition in bankruptcy, and prayed therein that he, the partnership, and T. E. Armstrong individually, be adjudged bankrupts. T. E. Armstrong demurred to the petition against him individually, his demurrer was sustained, and the petition as to him individually was dismissed. He answered the petition as to the partnership, Fleischman demurred to his answer, that demurrer was sustained, and on April 15, 1913, the partnership and the individual, Fleischman, were adjudged bankrupt. On April 24, 1913, the referee, without notice to Armstrong and without hearing, ordered him to file with the referee within 10 days a list of his creditors and a schedule of his assets. On a petition of Armstrong to' revise this order, the District Court affirmed it. Thereupon Armstrong filed, a petition to revise and avoid this order of the court below, and his counsel now contend that this' order is erroneous: First, because the referee gave no notice of the hearing of the question whether or not he should make this order, failed to have any hearing upon that question, and failed to recite in the order anything about the notice or hearing as required- by General Order in Bankruptcy No. XXIII; and, second, because inasmuch as
The petition to revise must be dismissed; and it is so ordered!.
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- (Syldatius T>y the Court.) 1. BANKHTTPTOY Where a partnership composed of two members and one of the members are adjudicated bankrupt, and the other member is not so adjudicated, tlie bankruptcy court may draw to itself and administer the property of the latter to the extent necessary to pay the debts of the partnership. Sed ion 5h of the Bankruptcy Act (Act July .1, 1898, c. 541, 30 Stat. 547, [Comp. St. 1913, § 95891), is inapplicable to such a case. It is limited in lis effect to cases in which the partnership is not -adjudicated bankrupt and one or more, but not all, the members are so adjudicated. TEd. Note. — For other cases, see Bankruptcy, Cent. Dig. § 229; Dec. Dig. 2. BANKRUPTCY Under General Order No. VIII (89 Fed. vi, 32 O. 0. A. xi), to the effect that where a partnership and one of its members has been, and the other member has not been, adjudged bankrupt, the latter is required to file a schedule of his debts and an inventory of his property within 10 days after the adjudication. [Ed. Note. — For other cases, see Bankruptcy, Cent. Dig. §' 27; Dec. Dig. 28.] 3. Bankruptcy The fact that, without complying with General Order No. XXIII (S9 Fed. xi, 32 O. O. A. xxvi), the referee made an order on the unadjudicat-ed member of a partnership, after it and the other member had been adjudicated bankrupt, to file the schedule of his debts and the Inventory of his property on or before 19 days after the adjudication, is not fatal to the order of the court confirming such an order, because the unadjudi-cated member was required by the bankruptcy law and General Order No. VIII to make these filings within 10 days after that adjudication. [Ed. Note. — For other cases, see Bankruptcy, Cent. Dig. § 27; Dec. Dig.