Household Finance Corp. v. West

This is an appeal from an order affirming the referee’s order granting the discharge of a bankrupt. Appellant, one of bankrupt’s creditors, filed objections to his discharge, based upon a claimed false written statement of his financial condition submitted for the purpose of obtaining credit.

On December 2, 1943, West, the bankrupt, applied" to- appellant for a loan of $300, and gave appellant a joint and several written financial statement purporting to show all the debts owed by himself and his wife, in which he listed only two creditors, whose claims totaled $446.71. Across the face of the…