Norwich bulletin., 1912-09-04
BANKRUPTCY CASES IN
 LAST FISCAL YEAR.
23s Voluntary and ss Involuntary Pe-
 titions Filed in Connecticut

The clerk of the United States court m Hartford has forwarded to the de- pertinent of justice at Washington report of the business in bankruptcy done in Connecticut for the fiscal year which ended on June 80. With the exception of matters in insolvency, which are not many and which are at tended to in the probate courts, prac- tlcally all of the failures in business are handled in the United States court. the petitions being filed in the clerk s office in Hartford and then referred to the referees in bankruptcy
 The report shows that at the close of the fiscal year June 30, 1911, there were 56S voluntary petitions pending in this district and s4 involuntary petitions pending. There were 233 voluntary petitions and 36 involun- tary petitions filed during the fiscal year ended June 30. 1912 All of those who filed voluntary petitions were ad- indicated bankrupt and S1 of the in- voluntary petitioners compromised with creditors During the fiscal year last closed there were 200 voluntary cases disposed of and 2l involuntary, In the voluntary petitions filed there were claims amounting to s1.4s4,- 943.67 that were secured or stood as liens Or were in the nature of prior claims, and in the involuntary petit tions there were claims amounting to S12.925.42 that stood in the same class. The unsecured claims against debtors who filed voluntary petitions, which creditors proved, footed s7ss,- S01,73, and the claims against invol- untary petitioners, which creditors proved. footed s232,7544S, In the in voluntary class of petitions the claims | that creditors failed to prove footed l S247. .67367, and in the involuntary | class the claims not proved by the l holders footed s59,026.23. The total liabilities of those filing voluntary pe- titions were $2,521, ,419.07, and the to- tal liabilities of those filing involun- tary petitions were $304, 706.0S.
 The total assets which those filing
 voluntary petitions had, according tC
 the schedules, were $254,02704, and
 the total assets of the debtors filins
 the inVoluInta1y petitions were listed | at S46, ,653.68. The total dividends tC
 unsecured cerditors named in the vol
 untary petitions were $97,222,70, anc
 the dividends to unsecured creditor:
 in the involuntary petitions were s22,.
 S4O.26. The fees to lawyers who fig,
 ured in the cases against the voluntary
 petitioners, were s9,610.7s, and for thi
 lawyers who figured in the cases O
 involuntary bankrupts, $2,4SS.22. Tn,
 other expenses in administering on tn
 estate Of voluntary banllrupts wer
 $26,025.S5 and in the cases of involun tary banlrupts, $S,526.50.
 The classification of those who file, voluntary petitions in bankruptcy dur ing the last fiscal year shows tha there were four farmers, 131 mer chants, II manufacturers and AS niis cellaneous, with the old cases maxim a net total of 5S7 voluntary case pending on July 1, 1912 Of the in voluntary cases there were IS mer chants during the last fiscal yearr, on professional man and two miscellane ous making a total of 91 new an old involuntary cases pending on Jul Ill 1912