IN RE SMITH, LOCKHART & CO.


3 F.2d 444 (1924)

In re SMITH, LOCKHART & CO. TRUSTEE IN BANKRUPTCY v. MERCANTILE TRUST & DEPOSIT CO.

District Court, D. Maryland.

December 17, 1924.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Purdon Wright and Reuben Oppenheimer, both of Baltimore, Md., for trustee.

Venable, Baetjer & Howard, of Baltimore, Md., for Mercantile Trust & Deposit Co.


ROSE, Circuit Judge.

Adjudication in bankruptcy of the stock brokerage firm of Smith, Lockhart & Co., herein called the bankrupt, was made upon a petition filed at 12:30 in the afternoon of August 9, 1922. Subsequent investigation demonstrated that its insolvency was of long standing, but before the day upon which legal proceedings were instituted that fact does not appear to have been known to any one outside the bankrupt's offices. It banked with the Mercantile...

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