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FAILURE OF A HANDSWORTH BUILDER

... Sharp: Are these c ladies related to you'' Bankrupt: No.-Mr. Sharp: ars t you ever seen them! Bankrupt: Yes-Mr. Sharp: Have r they ever visited you? Bankrupt: Yes.-Mr. Sharp: a Whast was your claim upon them? Bankrupt: only that, a they weres riends of nine ...

BIRMINGHAM COUNTY COURT

... £2181 -Bankrupt: It is a most cruel thing, and I can say nothing .toro.-Mr. Sharp: But this is vour own statements-Bankrupt: As valued by Mr. AlfortL-Again pressed by M7fr. Sharp to give an e:aplanatio of such fearful depreciation, bankrupt seaid the ...

A SHOCKING COMPANY CASE

... responsible interesc.-Mr. Sharp: Who was the vendor of the company? Bankrupt: Myself. There were seven shareholders, Who took a: £1 share each, includinz two sons and a daughter of the bankrupt. The nominal capital wa £2, 00a0, in £1lsbares, and there were ...

BIRMINGHAM COUNTY COURT

... Sylvester, who appeared for the bankrupt, said that he did not oppose- the adjournment but he hoped that Mr. Bachinana would in the meantime he allowed to go abroad. Until he could consult his friends, who lived abroad, the bankrupt would be unable to make arrange- ...

BIRMINGHAM COUNTY COURT

... that bankrupt had been an honest but unfortunate ?? Honour isaid I there was no deliberate personal deceit, but bankrupt i had contracted debts which apparently he had not the slightest prospeet of being able to pay.-Mr. Griffiths said the bankrupt seemed ...

BIRMINGHAM COUNTY COURT

... judgiment? Bankrupt: Ves.- Did you hear him say that the transactions wvhich bad been investigated by the jury were undoubtedly die- honest on the part of Bachmaun ? Bankrupt: I did.- ~r. Woollect: Woatl have yen to say to that ? Bankrupt: All bankruptcY ...

BIRMINGHAM COUNTY COURT

... keep you9 Bankrupt: I cannot sr,_ Thez egistar: What steps have you 'been taking smce September last to support yourself.? Bankrupt: None at alL-Mlr. Vaehell asked some queelttns with regard to the debtor's share transactions. In reply, bankrupt said that ...

BIRMINGHAM COUNTY COURT

... ()flc~al Receiver (Mr. L. J Sharp;, bankrupt stated he commenetced business in 1882 wth his fatier, who tradedl as a wine merchant at Ban- bury. Shortly after his father's deatb, in 188. the business was sold, and bankrupt tben started as a chemist at: Glocester ...

BIRMINGHAM BANKRUPTCY COURT

... nohn todo with the question of the bankrupt disobeying enI order of the Cocrt.-IDebtor said since the order was made he bad recueived no salary--Mr. Sharp reminded his Honour that in the first instance the bankrupt owed [ [£500 to the firm with which ...

BIRMINGHAM COUNTY COURT

... £B45. A dividend of Is. 3¼/d. in the pound had been paid. In November, 1897; the bankrupt's wife. became' the tenant of :dining, rooms-in. -Louginore Street, and. the bankrupt; bor- rowed £300 to lend her. She aftcrii'ards -'sold the husiness, and had 'to ...

BIRMINGHAM COUNTY COURT

... de6ciencv of £289 in 1899 swelling up to ;1, 800 in 1900, and bankrupt replied that he b haid bad debts, and had lost money on the High Street ?? by Mr. Sharp (on behlf;E of the trustee), the bankrupt admitted that Nadel was allowed to draw cheques after the ...

BANKRUPTCY PROCEEDINGS

... that the surveyor was wrong. On the 31st May the bankrupts offered the four houses for sale. but the property was not sold. On this becoming known creditors commenced to press. On the 25tb June, the bankrupts purchased a painters' business at Welles- bourne ...