Ex parte: Reece & Co; In re: Hurry; Ex Parte: Barron; In re: Hurry [1911] ZAWLD 6 (7 February 1911)

Reported
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Insolvency - Costs - Compulsory Sequestration - Concurrent
Applications - Law 13 of 1895.

 

Case summary

When two creditors each presented a petition on the same day for the sequestration of the same debtor's estate and, at the time of drawing up their petitions, neither had notice of the other's petition:

Held, that the petition first filed should be granted, but that the costs of the other petitioner should be paid out of the debtor's estate.

 


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