Case ID: f-cas_11/html/1052-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Case No. 6,338.
    In re HELLER et al.
    [32 Leg. Int. 136.] 
    
    District Court, S. D. New York.
    March 30, 1875.
    Bankruptcy — Verification of Involuntary Petition.
    An involuntary petition in bankruptcy cannot be verified before a notary public.
    An involuntary petition in bankruptcy was filed by several creditors of the firm of Heller Bros. & Co., for an adjudication of said firm as bankrupts. This was opposed by the counsel for the debtors upon the ground that the original petition was not properly verified — verification having been made before a notary public, and not before a judge, register, or commissioner, as provided by section 5017, c. 2, tit 61, of the Revised Statutes.
    
      
       [Reprinted by permission.]
    
   BLATCHFORD, District Judge,

rendered decision dismissing the petition and all the proceedings, and denying the motion for an adjudication, úpon the ground that the petition was not properly verified before a notary public.