In re Smith

On July 24, 1913, a petition was filed in this court by Deo R. Dickey, E. E. Gilman, Albert Hanford, and DTnion Dand Company, alleging that the petitioners are creditors of F. M. Smith, having provable claims against him amounting to the sum of $500 in excess of the value of securities, alleging, further, that said F. M. Smith owes debts in excess of $1,000 and is insolvent, and alleging, also, the commission of certain acts of bankruptcy by said F. M. Smith within four months prior to the filing of the said petition. The character of the claims of said petitioners against the alleged bankrupt is also fully set out, in the said petition. Thereafter, and on August 21, 1913, J. M. Kane was allowed to intervene in said proceedings, and filed his petition as a creditor herein, and on the same date another petition was permitted to be filed by D. A. Goetz, Peter Hartwigsen, Frank Guittard, W. N. Hunt, R. B. Mott, John Dundholm, Edgar Mizner, and M. O’Connell, also intervening, as creditors and joining in the original petition. In each of these petitions by intervening creditors the character of the claims against the alleged bankrupt is fully set forth. ,

These claims fall into four…