Case Name: In re HIGGINS
Court: United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1875-05
Citations: 12 F. Cas. 127
Docket Number: 
Parties: In re HIGGINS.
Judges: BLATCHFÓRD, District Judge. T think the register ruled correctly.
Reporter: Federal Cases
Volume: 12
Pages: 127–127

Head Matter:
Case No. 6,467.
In re HIGGINS.
[8 Ben. 100.]
District Court, S. D. New York.
May, 1875.
Bower op Attorney — Notary Public.
■ Under general order in bankruptcy No. 34, •■adopted April 12th, 1875, a notary public is not authorized to take the acknowledgment of a creditor to a power of attorney to vote for assignee.
[Reported by Robert D. Benedict, Esq., and Benj. Lincoln Benedict, Esq., and here reprinted by permission.]

Opinion:
In this case the register certified that, at a first meeting of creditors held for the choice •of assignee, eleven proofs of debt were filed, representing $3,952.05; that seven of them, representing claims amounting to $2,642.18, voted for George W. Van Siclen as assignee, the powers of attorney, tinder which two of these were represented, having been acknowledged before a notary public; that the other four creditors, representing claims amounting to $1,309.87, voted for John H. Platt as assignee; that the bankrupt [J. Olmstead Higgins] and the minority creditors objected to the votes cast under the powers of attorney, on the ground that, under general order "No. 34, adopted April 12th, 1875, a notary public was not a proper officer authorized to take such acknowledgments; and that he had ¡sustained the objection, had held that no as-signee was appointed, and had appointed Mr. Platt as assignee.
BLATCHFÓRD, District Judge. T think the register ruled correctly.