Case ID: f_115/html/0707-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "PER CURIAM.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

In re EWING.
    (Circuit Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
    April 22, 1902.)
    Nos. 127, 128.
    1. Bankruptcy — Involuntary Proceedings — Petition.
    A petition alleging payments to a creditor while insolvent as an act of bankruptcy is demurrable unless it further avers that such payments were made with intent to prefer such creditor over the other creditors of the defendant.
    2. Same.
    Averments in a petition in involuntary bankruptcy intended to show that the indebtedness of defendant to one of the petitioners was fraudulently contracted are impertinent, and, on motion therefor, should be stricken out.
    Petitions to Review Orders of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.
    On petitions for revision of orders in bankruptcy proceeding.
    Austin G. Fox, for petitioner.
    H. N. Avery, opposed.
    Before WALEACE and EACOMBE, Circuit Judges.
   PER CURIAM.

We are of the opinion that the demurrer to the petition for the adjudication of Ewing as a bankrupt should have 'been sustained because the petition omits to aver that any of the payments alleged to have been made by Ewing, the alleged bankrupt, to Bouvier, were made with intent to prefer Bouvier over his other creditors. We are also of the opinion that the averments in the petition of facts intended to show that the debt of Ewing to one of the petitioners was fraudulently contracted were impertinent, and should have been stricken out. The questions seem too clear to require discussion. '

The order overruling the demurrer is reversed, with costs, and with instructions to the court below to- make an order sustaining the demurrer, and, at its discretion, authorizing an amendment of the petition.