DISTRICT COURT.

Oamaru Mail, Volume III, Issue 727, 8 August 1878, Page 3

DISTRICT COURT.

YE"-T'KttDAY. (Btifnrv llw Honor I'listriit .rwt'.i' W.srp.) In, t» Gilchrist. This was an application by certain flutives of the bankrupt to rescind an ir ji;r obtained by the trustee in the itjite for the recovery of certain wperty alleged by hint to belong to jib bankrupt, but claimed by the ap■licants' in this case. Jfr. OTVfeagher appeared in support of he application, and Mr. White, instructed y Messrs. Julius and Balrner, for the puttee. The facts of the case were as follows : It a former sitting of the District Court tr. C. Sumpter, the trustee, applied for mt obtained an order for the sale for the BBtifit of the estate of some horses ar- : ittle believed to be fraudulently claim ■•! 1 three of the sons and a brother-i\ i i« fthe bankrupt. On the present»■■■•:•.•<;. >.: lis claimants of the property in ~;';•• ipplied to the Judge to have tT. • r. ~i.nr inter reversed. The appticac. a ••-.■;;■ icurd at great length, arid a vast .<■■■•■ <t ■ re ry contradictory evidence was » . w.:ii, | ipnn which the Judge made some pungent j mil severe remarks to the effect that he j iclieved the whole thirty to be a con-I .piracy to defeat the creditors of the J sinkrnpt, and dismissed the application ; 'it the reversal of the order obtained by i !tr. Sumpter with costs, except s<> far as i >ne «»f the sons was concerned, in respect if whom, having regard to the fact that | :,itH blind, the trustee, with the consent j t the Judge, consented to admit his ritrht j o some cattle of comparatively small | ralue claimed by him. !