Household Finance Corp. v. Hamer

Household Finance Corporation of Suitland (Household) sued Henry Hamer to recover $943.60 of $990.00 it had lent him in 1965, alleging that he had obtained the money by reason of “a materially false statement in writing [his own handwriting over his signature] respecting his financial condition,” the statement that his existing debts totalled $60.00, whereas in fact they totalled $2,325.29.

Hamer pleaded that he had not promised and was not indebted as alleged and that he had been adjudicated a bankrupt by the District Court for the District of Maryland in 1966, having been discharged on May…