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GILES v. VETTE

No. 59.

263 U.S. 553 (1924)

44 S.Ct. 157

68 L.Ed. 441

GILES ET AL. v. VETTE ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 7, 1924.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. William Burry and Mr. Guy M. Peters, with whom Mr. Julius Moses and Mr. Lewis F. Jacobson were on the briefs, for petitioners.

Mr. George T. Buckingham, with whom Mr. Harry P. Weber, Mr. George W. Miller, Mr. Donald Defrees and Mr. Stephen E. Hurley were on the brief, for Vette et al., respondents.

Mr. Horace Kent Tenney, with whom Mr. Charles F. Harding, Mr. Roger Sherman, Mr. Carl Meyer and Mr. Henry Russell Platt were on the brief, for executors of Hecht et al., respondents.

Mr. Justice BUTLER delivered the opinion of the Court.

On March 11 and 12, 1920, creditors filed petitions in bankruptcy against Marcuse & Company, and a receiver was appointed. The bankruptcy court found that the firm was composed of Marcuse, Morris, Hecht, Finn, Vette, Zuncker, Regensteiner, Clement Studebaker, Jr. and George M. Studebaker, and sent the case to the referee, directing findings of fact as to insolvency. The case was taken to the Circuit Court...

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