Case Name: In the Matter of Kelly, Bankrupt
Court: United States District Court for the District of Kentucky
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1880-06
Citations: 3 F. 219
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of Kelly, Bankrupt.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Reporter
Volume: 3
Pages: 219–220

Head Matter:
In the Matter of Kelly, Bankrupt.
(District Court, D. Kentucky.
June, 1880.)
1. Bankruptcy — Petition eor Discharge — Failure to Prosecute.
In Bankruptcy.

Opinion:
Bare, D. J.
In this case Caleb Kelly filed his petition, to he adjudged a bankrupt, on the second of May, 1878, and was so adjudged on the tenth of May, 1878.
He reported some encumbered real estate and a little personal property, but all" seems to have been set apart to him under the exemption laws.
oThe bankrupt filed his petition for a discharge February 15, 1879, and at the meeting some of his creditors opposed his discharge, and filed grounds why the discharge should not be granted. No further action seems to have been taken by tho. bankrupt. Berry, Jones & Hiter, creditors, who had proven their claims, filed a petition in this court October 8, 1879, asking to he allowed to pursue their legal remedies in the state courts against the bankrupt. This court, on an ex parte hearing of said petition, declined to enter such an order, but directed a rule to be issued against the bankrupt, returnable July 6, 1880, to show cause, if any he had, why he did not prosecute his cause and ask for his discharge.
The rule has been returned executed, and still the bankrupt has made no response, nor has he taken any further steps in his causé. I therefore direct the order to he entered:
In re Caleb Kelly, Bankrupt.
The bankrupt having failed to prosecute his cause with diligence, and failed to show cause why he does not prosecute it and ask a discharge, it is adjudged that there has been unreasonable delay upon the part of the bankrupt in presenting his cause and asking for a discharge, and upon motion of Jones, Berry, and other creditors, it is now ordered that said creditors, and all others who have proven their debts against said bankrupt, have leave to prosecute any and all suits in law or equity they or either of them could have done had said Kelly never been adjudged a bankrupt. It further is ordered that said Jones and Berry, petitioning creditors herein, recover of said Caleb Kelly their costs expended herein, and may have execution therefor.