Samuel Hubbel Treat Jr.
How Judge Treat rules, drawn from 5 signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
Judge Treat no longer hears cases. This profile is preserved as a historical record of how they ruled.
How Judge Treat decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
What persuades
In Keiler, Treat favored a composition where creditors could receive no more through ordinary administration and further litigation would consume the estate.
“courts have adjusted demands in dispute, thereby avoiding litigation and its attendant expenses, which not infrequently would have been largely more than the whole amount involved.”
Procedural preferences
In Keiler, Treat required substantive scrutiny of bankruptcy compositions when the available facts gave reason to suspect collusion.
“Though suspicions are not proofs, yet if apparently resting on good grounds, should provoke careful scrutiny.”
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“Decision of register affirmed.”
“The decision of the register is in all things affirmed.”
Treat instructed the jury that members of a liquor-selling association could face tax liability even if sales were limited to members and not conducted for profit; the report states no verdict and is excluded from outcome statistics.
“the exceptions will be overruled”
“the composition ordered to be recorded”
“the accounts of Matthews and Selkirk will be rejected.”
“Each of the appraisers will be allowed $100, and the expert $180, to be taxed as costs.”
“The defendant, not having paid the special tax as retail liquor dealer at Fairfield, is guilty as charged in the indictment.”
Caseload & timing
From public federal docket records for this judge.
No assigned docket records were returned under two plausible Treat name variants.
A historical record
Judge Treat no longer hears cases. This profile stays available as a record of how they ruled. If you're preparing for a matter, start from the court's current bench.