In re Harrell

SIBLEY, District Judge.

On May 28, 1914, an involuntary petition in bankruptcy was filed against M. I. and Frank Harrell, who had jointly leased a hotel and restaurant and operated them in partnership. Petitions for discharge, filed in time, were opposed on the grounds: First, that the bankrupts had concealed, within four months of their bankruptcy, several thousand dollars in cash, with intent to hinder, delay, and defraud their creditors; and, second, that they and each of them, with intent to conceal their financial condition, had failed to keep books of account or records from which such…