Claudon v. Illinois State Sav. Bank

ANDERSON, Circuit Judge.

The original petition to have A. B. Claudon adjudged a bankrupt was filed December 22,1927. On that date he was a fugitive from justice and continued as such fugitive until October 28, 1931, when he was apprehended and brought back within the jurisdiction of tho bankruptcy court by the sheriff of his county to answer an indictment then pending against him. lie was a fugitive from justice nearly four years.

While he was such fugitive, and at a time when the law-enforcing officers knew nothing of his whereabouts, and when his son, the appellant, and other members of his…