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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

In re NEW ENGLAND BREEDERS’ CLUB.
    (District Court, D. New Hampshire.
    September 22, 1908.)
    No. 1,253.
    Bankruptcy (§ 72) — Proceedtnos Against Corporations — Jurisdiction of Court.
    Where a corporation, at the time il was adjudicated a bankrupt, was not and had never been principally engaged in any business which, under the statute, rendered it subject to such adjudication, the court was wholly without jurisdiction to make the same; and such lack oi' jurisdiction cannot be cured by laches, waiver, or estoppel, but the proceedings must be dismissed.
    [Ed. Note. — For other cases, see Bankruptcy, Dec. Dig. § 72.*
    What, persons are subject to bankruptcy law, see note to Mattoon Nat. Bank v. First Nat. Bank, 42 0. C. A. 4.]
    In Bankruptcy. On report of special master.
    Henry F. Hollis, for trustee.
    Taggart, Tuttle, Burroughs & Wyman, for Hub Construction Co.
    
      
       For other casos see same topic & § nilmbhr in Dec. & Am. Digs. 1907 to date, & Jlep’r Indexes
    
   ALDRICH, District Judge.

I hold the impression that the facts found by the master, that the Breeders’ Club, at the time of the adjudication, was not principally engaged in trading or mercantile pursuits, and that it was never to any extent engaged in such pursuits, present a situation of absolute lack of jurisdiction, and that such lack of jurisdiction cannot be cured by laches, waiver, or estoppel, even as against a petitioner who has no interest in raising the jurisdictional question. 1 therefore do not pass upon either the questions of fact involved in the claim of waiver, estoppel, or laches, nor upon the question of the legal or equitable interest of the Hub Construction Company.

The proceedings are dismissed. . The trustee in bankruptcy excepts, and the execution of this order is stayed pending review.