Case Name: In re OVERTON
Court: United States District Court for the Northern District of New York
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1871-05-15
Citations: 18 F. Cas. 920
Docket Number: 
Parties: In re OVERTON.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Cases
Volume: 18
Pages: 920–920

Head Matter:
Case No. 10,625.
In re OVERTON.
[5 N. B. R. 366.]
District Court, N. D. New York.
May 15, 1871.
Bankruptcy — Appointment op Additional As-signee — Application to Contest a Claim.
1. An additional assignee may be appointed to act in conjunction with the one previously appointed, upon a petition to the court showing sufficient reasons for so doing.
2. An application to contest a' claim against bankrupt’s estate will he allowed upon a petition and affidavits stating fully and in detail the grounds upon which such application is based.
In bankruptcy.
I. E. L. Hamilton and Wadsworth & White, for petitioning creditor.
[Reprinted by permission.]

Opinion:
HALL, District Judge.
On reading and filing the petition of Elizabeth P. B. Overton, and the affidavits thereto annexed, it is hereby ordered and adjudged, that it is expedient that an additional assignee of said bankrupt should be appointed herein, and that Hon. Charles Mason, of the city of Utica, be and he hereby is appointed an additional assignee to act herein in conjunction with Parker N. Teft, heretofore appointed assignee in this matter, on his giving security in the sum of five thousand dollars for the faithful performance of his trust, the same to be approved by William H. Comstock, register in bankruptcy. And it is further ordered, that the petitioner be allowed to renew the application to contest the claim of the Howe Machine Company, and for an order for the disallowance and rejection thereof upon a petition and papers stating fully and in detail the grounds upon which such application may be based.