17 F. Cas. 1030 | M.D. Tenn. | 1874
Creditors of Alonzo Murphy filed a petition against him, asking his adjudication in involuntary bankruptcy, some time in the year 1872. The order to show cause was served on him. and on his default to answer he was adjudicated a bankrupt, and his property turned over to an assignee. The property in the hands of the assignee has never been distributed among the creditors. Alonzo Murphy now comes in with a petition supported by affidavits, showing that he was non compos mentis at the time the debts of petitioning creditors were created, as well as at the time of the institution of proceedings, and the adjudication of bankruptcy, and until a very recent period. Under this state of facts, I cannot refuse the application to set the default and subsequent adjudication aside, and to allow Alonzo Murphy to show cause why he should not be adjudicated a bankrupt.
