Handford v. United States

BIGGS, Circuit Judge.

The question attempted to be presented by the parties in the appeal at bar, though not by the record, is whether the United States is barred from filing1 a claim based on fraud by Section 57, sub. n of the Bankruptcy Act as amended, 11 U.S.C.A. § 93 sub. n. The court below, affirming a decision of the referee in bankruptcy, held that the claim of the United States was barred by the statute cited. The appeal at bar followed.

The record in the case at bar is so incomplete that we have had great difficulty in attempting to ascertain the operative facts and even now are not…