Bannon v. Knauss

OPINION

By BLOSSER, J.

John B. Knauss, Sr., was Vice president and treasurer of the Portsmouth Stove & Range Company, a corporation organized and doing business in the state of Ohio. The company went into bankruptcy and Louis D. Bannon was appointed trustee of the bankrupt. He filed a suit against Knauss and obtained a default judgment against him in the sum of $7,609.37 and interest. Knauss then filed a petition in bankruptcy and listed this judgment in his schedule of debts and it was allowed as a claim against his estate. Knauss was later discharged as a bankrupt. His mother, Mrs. Frances…