
    Case No. 8,986a.
    Case of DONNELL.
    
    District Court, D. Maine.
    June, 1876.
    Bankruptcy—Sales by Assignee—Confirmation.
    [It is not the practice in the first circuit to confirm sales by assignees, as the rights of third parties are liable to be compromised thereby.]
    [Cited in Re Alden, Case No. 151.]
    
      
       [Not previously reported.]
    
   In the matter of Thomas E. Knight, a bankrupt

A sale of real estate was made, at public auction, after the notice by the assignee of said Knight, to William E. Donnell, of Portland. Said Donnell filed a petition to confirm said sale, upon which is endorsed in the handwriting of FOX,District Judge,the following: “It appears not to have been the practice in the first circuit to confirm sales by assignees; and on account of rights of third parties being liable to be compromised thereby, I decline to adopt such practice, and refuse to pass upon the matter of the confirmation of the sale in this cause.”  