Legal Opinion
James Benjamin Hamby, Bankrupt v. St. Paul Mercury Indemnity Company, Creditor
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided November 9, 1954No. 6872_1PublishedCited by 54 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PARKER, Chief Judge.
This is an appeal in bankruptcy proceedings from an order exempting a debt due by the bankrupt from the operation of a discharge order. The bankrupt, one Hamby, was a real estate agent operating in the State of Virginia and the indebtedness denied discharge arose out of the misappropriation by him of moneys with which he had been entrusted by the purchaser of real estate to pay off the liens and claims against it. Judgment had been entered against him in the state court for this indebtedness with a finding by the judge that he had “misappropriated the funds which passed…
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