Evans v. Robbins (In Re Robbins)

MEMORANDUM OPINION

FRANK W. KOGER, Bankruptcy Judge.

“The stories of bankrupts who conceal assets have assumed a form almost as conventional as the plots one finds in the plays of Plautus and Terence. Indeed, if they were told with art and possessed more fertility of imagination, a new anthology might be gathered for American literature from the bankruptcy field. As it is, they contain little more than standardized forms of falsehood so often reiterated as to be neither credible nor interesting”. Union Trust Company v. Abesbaum, 70 F.2d 628 (2nd Cir.1934).

Those are the words of The Honorable…