Atlanta Skirt Mfg. Co. v. Jacobs

The Atlanta Skirt Manufacturing Company sued Jacobs in a justice’s court on three promissory notes; and -by consent of all parties the cases were appealed to the superior court and consolidated. Jacobs’ defense to the notes was his discharge in bankruptcy. To avoid this discharge the plaintiff relied on section 17 of the bankruptcy law as amended in 1903, which provides' as follows: “A discharge in bankruptcy shall release a bankrupt from all of his provable debts, except such as . . 'are liabilities for obtaining property by false pretenses or false representations.” In support of this…