In re Brecher

The bankrupt applied for a discharge. The respondent creditor appeared in opposition. Owing to what the court below evidently regarded as the excusable negligence of a clerk, the specifications in opposition to discharge were offered for filing 48 hours after the expiration of the 10 days allowed by General Order 32. Thereupon the judge sitting in bankruptcy granted an order permitting and directing the filing of the creditor’s specifications nunc pro tunc as of the proper day. The appeal attacks the validity of that order.

The general orders were framed by the Supreme Court under the…