JUDGMENT

C.C. Ghose, J. - This is an application for an order that the firm of Chowdhury & Co., may be adjudicated as insolvents.

2. The facts which have been opened before me by learned Counsel who appeared in support of the application are as follows : On the 21st August, 1923, a decree was obtained in suit No. 2239 of 1923 by Messrs. Hursukdas Balkissendas who are the petitioning creditors for a sum of Rs. 10,000, being the amount due on a hundi executed on the 4th May, 1923 by Messrs. Chowdhury & Co. In execution of the said decree; the decree-holders applied for leave to attach certain properties belonging to the judgment-debtors and then in the hands of Mr. R.N. Mitter, Barristerat-Law, who had been appointed Receiver in another suit of the assets belonging to Messrs. Chowdhury & Co. On or about the 29tb November, 1923, the Receiver was served with a notice requiring him not to part with certain articles of furniture which had been attached by the decree-holders in execution of the said decree, until the further orders of this court. The attachment was levied on the 30th November, 1923. On the 13th December, 1923, the decree-holders applied for and obtained an order from this C