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Case No. 12,788.
    In re SHINE et al.
    District Court, D. Massachusetts.
    March 3. 1877.
    B a nkhuptoy — Com POSIT] oX.
    One creditor of a bankrupt, who was endeavoring to obtain a resolution of composition, i wrote to another creditor, who had not signed, | desiring him to help forward the eonnosition ! as much as possible, by his signature and otlier-wise, and said: “I shall consider your doing so a personal favor, upon the strength of which you may depend UDon my trade in future.” Held, that it was improper to obtain the signature of a creditor in such a manner, and leave to record a resolution of composition containing such signature was refused.
    [Cited in 15 Alb. Law J. 293, to the foregoing proposition. Nowhere reported; opinion not now accessible.]
    [In the matter of Shine & Sons, bankrupts.]