Legal Opinion
In re Cohen
District Court, D. New Jersey
Decided March 26, 1940Published
1Opinion of the Court
FORMAN, District Judge.
David Cohen was adjudged a bankrupt on his voluntary petition on August 23, *2041937. He was granted his discharge in bankruptcy on January 7, 1938. In the schedule supporting his petition he listed, among others, as a creditor the Firemen’s Fund Indemnity Company in the following language: “Firemen’s Fund Indemnity Company — Judgment procured December 16, 1935; $40,000, and costs of $54.52.”
No address was given for this creditor. Consequently, no notice of the bankruptcy was sent to it, and it filed no claim. The estate of the bankrupt had no assets.
About eleven months…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Ex parte SteeleDistrict Court, N.D. Alabama · 1908
- Westall v. AveryCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1909
- Holmes v. DavidsonCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1936
- Fourteenth Ave. Security Loan Ass'n v. SquireCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1938
- In re LansleyCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1926
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