Case Name: In re LANG
Court: United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1869
Citations: 14 F. Cas. 1097
Docket Number: 
Parties: In re LANG.
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Reporter: Federal Cases
Volume: 14
Pages: 1097–1097

Head Matter:
Case No. 8,056.
In re LANG.
[2 N. B. R. 480 (Quarto, 151).]
District Court, D. Massachusetts.
1869.
Bankruptcy — Application for Discharge — Within What Time to be Made — Last Dat Thanksgiving Day.
A was adjudged a ba’nkrupt November 26, 1867, and filed his application for a discharge November 27, 1868. Held, that the case was within the eauity and fair construction of section forty-eight of the bankrupt act of 1867 [14 Stat. 540], which provides that when any particular number of days is prescribed, and the last day falls on a Sunday, Christmas Day, or ■any day appointed by the president of the United States as a day of public thanksgiving, the last day shall be excluded from the computation. Usual order of notice to creditors allowed to be issued.
[Cited in Cooley v. Cook, 125 Mass. 409.]
The adjudication of bankruptcy in the case of J. H. B. Lang was made November 26, 1867. The bankrupt filed in court his application for a discharge November 27, 1868, and the question was raised ex parte whether his application was within one year from the adjudication, as required by section twenty-nine of the bankrupt act.
S. Edwin Ireson, for bankrupt.
[Reprinted by permission.]

Opinion:
1,0 WELL, District Judge,
held that the case was within the equity and fair construction of section forty-eight, which provides that when any particular number of days is prescribed by the statute for doing any act, or for any other purpose, and the last day falls on a Sunday, Christmas Day, or any day appointed by the president of the United States as a day of public thanksgiving, &c., the last day shall be excluded from the computation.
The order of notice was accordingly allowed to be issued.