John Hancock Abbott, Bankrupt v. The Regents of the University of California, Objection Creditor

OPINION

Before MOORE, * HUFSTEDLER and WRIGHT, Circuit Judges. EUGENE A. WRIGHT, Circuit Judge:

We are asked in this appeal to reverse a decision of the district court which affirmed a determination of the bankruptcy judge that fraud precluded the discharge in bankruptcy of a student loan. The bankruptcy judge had given judgment in favor of the University Regents against the bankrupt. We affirm.

While a student at two state colleges in 1965 and 1966, Abbott obtained National Defense Student Loans totalling more than $5,000, all of which were discharged in bankruptcy in April 1967. About the same…