SUPREME COURT.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2494, 13 February 1871, Page 2

SUPREME COURT.

IS BANKRUPTCY. Tins Dav. (Before Mr Justice Chapman.) KIN.VI. lUSOIAKGKS Final discharges were granted to James M'Breaity and Caleb Moore. Kk i nrk 11 Font).— A final order to issue at the statutory period, but only on the production of ihe trustee’s receipt for Ll‘2 Ids, retained in order by the bankrupt. ADirDICATIONS. George Sheriff and William Breading were adjudged bankrupts, and first meetings of creditors fixed for the 21st insk Kk Doff Ei,i.is, Air Walter Taylor, instructed by Mr M‘Keay, moved for an order confirming the appointment of Mr M'Kcay as trustee, and for the 27th inst. to be fixed for the bankrupt to pass his final examination. Order granted. Ki: Jamks Bi'chax.—The 27th inst. was fixed for the bankrupt’s final examination. Kk William Hint.—Adjourned final examination. This mattar was further adjourned till the 20th inst. Kk William Tyson. —This was a debtor’s petition to annul the bankruptcy. Mr Harris

supported the pc'ition, and Mr Stewart op* posed on bdialf of the trustee. Some time since Tyson committed an act of bankruptcy, but afterwards, at a meeting of creditors, it was agreed to take the matter out of Court, and accept a composition of 10s in the £. To that a r rangement all the creditors, save Mr J. F. Herb rt and another person, consented in writing. Mr Herbert agreed at the meeting to accept the composition, but afterwards declined to do so. He was appointed trustee in the estate, and in that cipacity he incurred expenses to tbeexteut of Ld, which he now claimed, but which the bankrupt disputed. Mr Stewart read a report by the trustee, in which the latter averred that the estate was a most unsatisfactory one ; that in two instances ihcre had appear ’d upon the schedule a large number of creditors to whom the bankrupt was not indebted one sixpence; and that the bankrupt was well able to pay 2hs in the £. Mr Stewart submitted that the present proceedings were vexatious. For the bankrupt it was contended that the appointment of Mr Herbci t as trustee was informal, and it was offered to pay the opposing creditors who have small claims ‘2os in the £. His Honor declined to grant the application for annulling the bankruptcy, and postponed his decision upon the ((iiestion of the appointment of trustee until certain witnesses were examined.