Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Publication Date
10-30-2023
Abstract
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3699. Case file for T. T. Melburn v. John T. Johnson, U.S. District Court for the District of Kentucky, filed 26 May 1870. Petitioner Melburn, a carpenter and stair builder of Bowling Green, Kentucky, sought an accounting for transactions during his 1869-1870 partnership with Johnson, also a carpenter, of Woodburn, Kentucky, claiming that Johnson had misappropriated assets of the firm and had committed an act of insolvency by transferring land to a relative. The inquiry, conducted by Warner Underwood as Register in Bankruptcy, included depositions from numerous individuals familiar with the parties, such as workers, suppliers, and customers for whom the firm built houses. The file includes the Register’s findings, and records that Johnson was adjudged a bankrupt in 1871 and was discharged from bankruptcy in 1872.
Disciplines
Bankruptcy Law | United States History
Recommended Citation
Folklife Archives, Manuscripts &, "Johnson, John T., 1820-1875 (SC 3699)" (2023). Manuscript Collection Finding Aids. Paper 5099.
https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_mss_fin_aid/5099
T. T. Melburn v. John T. Johnson
Comments
This collection is archived in the Manuscripts & Folklife Archives at Western Kentucky University; 270-745-5083, mssfa@wku.edu