District Court, D. Connecticut January 22, 1900, No. 35 (In re Washburn)

TOWNSEND, District Judge.

The only action taken by the petitioner herein, on which the alleged bankruptcy proceedings are founded, was to file, on December 7, 1898, with the clerk of the district court, a single partnership petition, signed and sworn to by all three members of the firm of Washburn Bros.