In re Johnston

Various specifications are filed against the bankrupt’s discharge. In my view of the case it is only necessary to consider the one charging that not one-fourth of the creditors in number and one-third in value have assented to the discharge. It appears by the schedules of the bankrupt, by the proofs of claim, and by the evidence taken on the reference, that the said bankrupt, at the time he filed his individual petition for the benefit of the act, was also liable for the debts of a partnership of which he had been a member, and which had been dissolved a few years before. The partnership has…