Case ID: f-cas_14/html/1097-01.html
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Author: {"author": "1,0 WELL, District Judge,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Case No. 8,056.
    In re LANG.
    [2 N. B. R. 480 (Quarto, 151).] 
    
    District Court, D. Massachusetts.
    1869.
    Bankruptcy — Application for Discharge — Within What Time to be Made — Last Dat Thanksgiving Day.
    A was adjudged a ba’nkrupt November 26, 1867, and filed his application for a discharge November 27, 1868. Held, that the case was within the eauity and fair construction of section forty-eight of the bankrupt act of 1867 [14 Stat. 540], which provides that when any particular number of days is prescribed, and the last day falls on a Sunday, Christmas Day, or ■any day appointed by the president of the United States as a day of public thanksgiving, the last day shall be excluded from the computation. Usual order of notice to creditors allowed to be issued.
    [Cited in Cooley v. Cook, 125 Mass. 409.]
    The adjudication of bankruptcy in the case of J. H. B. Lang was made November 26, 1867. The bankrupt filed in court his application for a discharge November 27, 1868, and the question was raised ex parte whether his application was within one year from the adjudication, as required by section twenty-nine of the bankrupt act.
    S. Edwin Ireson, for bankrupt.
    
      
       [Reprinted by permission.]
    
   1,0 WELL, District Judge,

held that the case was within the equity and fair construction ■of section forty-eight, which provides that when any particular number of days is prescribed by the statute for doing any act, or for any other purpose, and the last day falls on a Sunday, Christmas Day, or any day appointed by the president of the United States as a day of public thanksgiving, &c., the last day shall be excluded from the computation.

The order of notice was accordingly allowed to be issued.