In re Gay
District Court, D. Maine
In bankruptcy. Petition by a bankrupt [Benjamin C. Gay] for his discharge. Creditors objected upon the ground that the bankrupt had given a fraudulent preference, and had not kept proper books of account
1Opinion of the Court
FOX, District Judge.
[The bankrupt having presented his petition for a discharge, seven of his creditors, merchants in this city, having duly proven their claims, appeared on the return day of the petition, and have filed specifications of their objections to his discharge, being sixteen in number. At the hearing, several of these specifications were adjudged defective, not sufficiently exact and precise to require the bankrupt to make de-fence thereto, and upon others, an opinion was also intimated, that they were not sustained by the testimony. There were others, however, which were fully…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Richardson v. WelcomeMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1850