Case Name: In re CLARK et al.
Court: United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1871-04-25
Citations: 5 F. Cas. 850
Docket Number: 
Parties: In re CLARK et al.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Cases
Volume: 5
Pages: 850–850

Head Matter:
Case No. 2,806.
In re CLARK et al.
[5 N. B. R. 255.]
District Court, S. D. New York.
April 25, 1871.
Bankruptcy — Proof of Claim by Secured Creditor.
Where a creditor who has ample security for his claim makes proof of the same, without mentioning the security, through inadvertence and ignorance of the law, an order will be entered granting to the said creditor leave to withdraw his proof and restoring to him his rights as though no proof had been filed.
[Cited in Re Hope Min. Co., Case No. <3,-CS1; Re Parkes, Id. 10,751; Re Baxter, 12 Fed, 75.]
[On certificate of I. T. Williams, Register:]
The undersigned register to whom the above entitled case is referred, respectfully reports and certifies to this honorable court: That John Byrne, by his attorney in fact, on the seventeenth day of January, eighteen hundred and seventy, made proof in due form of law, before me, of his claim against the estate of said bankrupts for the sum of six thousand seven hundred dollars, without making any reference to any security held therefor. That afterwards and on the thirtieth of March, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, the said John Byrne filed his petition before me which is hereto annexed, from which it appears that he has ample security for his claim, and that the proving thereof was made and filed through inadvertence or ignorance of his attorney of the fact that any security was held therefor, praying for leave to withdraw7 his said proof, and that he be restored to his rights in all things as if no such proof had been made or filed. That notice of the filing of said petition was given to the assignee in these proceedings who thereupon appeared before me and objected to the granting of the prayer of the said petition, on the ground that the said security had been by the making and filing of said proof waived, and that the estate had thereby assumed rights which he did not feel at liberty to relinquish. Whereupon I hereby certify the issue so framed to this court for decision. And I further certify and report that I am perfectly satisfied that the said proof was made and filed solely through inadvertence and in ignorance of the law, or of the facts of the case on the part of the said attorney who made the same, and that the said petitioner, had he known the facts and law, would not have made or filed the said proof. Wherefore I recommend to this honorable court that an order be entered giving leave to said petitioner to withdraw his said proof, and that he be in all things restored to his rights as though no proof of claim had been made or filed.
[Reprinted by permission.]

Opinion:
BLATOHPORD, District Judge.
An order to the effect recommended by the register should be entered.