In re Hess
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
In Bankruptcy. Motion to show cause why bankrupt should not produce books and pay over funds in his hands referred to a referee.
1Opinion of the Court
HOLLAND, District Judge.
Upon the petitions filed by Louis Behai, trustee in this estate, orders were granted upon Edward Hess, the bankrupt, to show cause (1) “why he should not forthwith make discovery of his books, their number and character, and make forthwith delivery of possession of the same to the trustee”; and (2) “why he, the said Edward Hess, should not be committed for contempt for failure to deliver to the trustee certain assets alleged to be in his hands, for which he had not accounted.”
The bankrupt’s answer to the first rule avers that the Tradesmen’s National Bank contemplates…
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