Robertson v. Berger

The respondent, Berger, moves for leave to appeal from an order in bankruptcy, holding him in contempt for failing to turn over a number of books of account relating to the business of the bankrupt, a corporation of which he had been the president. The question is whether leave is necessary under § 24a of the Chandler Act, 11 U.S.C.A. § 47(a). That section gives us a broader jurisdiction than we had under §§ 24a and 24b, as they stood before 1938, 44 Stat. 664, for it authorizes appeals on the law and the facts, not only in “controversies”, but in “proceedings in bankruptcy”. Two provisos are…