Benjamin v. Jaspan

AUGUSTUS N. HAND, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from an order of the District Court which reversed an order of the referee in bankruptcy which had granted a discharge to the bankrupt Shepard Benjamin. The District Court sustained the second specification charging the bankrupt with a failure to preserve books of account of himself or the corporations in which he was interested from which his financial transactions might be ascertained. The referee, on the other hand, had held that this specification was not established because the bankrupt had been employed by the Borden Company as a…