In re Arnold
District Court, D. New Jersey
In Bankruptcy. In the matter of Walter Arnold, bankrupt. On exceptions to and motion to confirm report of special master recommending discharge.
1Opinion of the Court
HAIGHT, District Judge.
The only specification of objections to the bankrupt’s discharge which needs more than a passing consideration is that dealing with his failure to keep books of account or records. It would require a vivid imagination to conclude that payments of small sums from time to time, from wages, on account of overdue board bills, and payments to-materialmen, who were secured by the mechanic’s lien law of New Jersey, were made with intent to hinder, delay, or defraud the bankrupt’s creditors. Nor can I find any such inconsistency in the bankrupt’s testimony as to warrant a…
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