Case Name: In re AMERICAN WATER-PROOF CLOTH CO.
Court: United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1867-10
Citations: 1 F. Cas. 722
Docket Number: 
Parties: In re AMERICAN WATER-PROOF CLOTH CO.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Cases
Volume: 1
Pages: 722–722

Head Matter:
Case No. 318.
In re AMERICAN WATER-PROOF CLOTH CO.
[1 Ben. 526; 3 N. B. R. 285, (Quarto, 74.)
District Court, E. D. New York.
Oct., 1867.
Appointment op Trustees by Creditors — Practice on Moving Conpirmation.
Where creditors of a bankrupt had adopted a resolution appointing trustees under section forty-three of the bankruptcy act. the confirmation of which was opposed; Sold, That the parties desiring the confirmation of the resolution were the moving parties, and should serve their papers on the opposing parties that they might answer them.
In bankruptcy. In this case, the creditors had adopted a resolution, under section forty-three of the bankrupt act, appointing trustees, and the matter of confirming the resolution came up before the court. Some of the parties interested contested the confirmation of the resolution, and the question of the practice in such a case was discussed.
Reported by Robert D. Benedict, Esq., and here reprinted by permission.]

Opinion:
BENEDICT, District Judge,
held that the parties desiring the confirmation of the resolution should be considered the moving parties, and directed that they should, within a week, file and serve such papers as they saw fit in support of their motion, and that the opposing parties have two weeks to file and serve papers in opposition thereto.