Siebert v. Dahlberg
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Missouri; David P. Dyer, Judge. In the matter of bankruptcy proceedings of Gustav Adolph Sie-bert. S. W. Dahlberg having filed objections to the bankrupt’s discharge, a limited order discharging him from certain debts was entered, from which he appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
HOOK, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal by Siebert, a voluntary bankrupt, from a limitation of the order discharging him from his debts. More than six years previously he had been adjudged a bankrupt in- a like proceeding in another jurisdiction, but failed to apply for and obtain a discharge within the time limited by the Bankruptcy Act. In the present case the trial court held that this failure to apply for and obtain a discharge operated as a decree by default that he was not entitled to it, and therefore as res judicata in respect of the debts then scheduled and provable. It accordingly…
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