In re Johnson
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
In Bankruptcy. In the matter of bankruptcy proceedings of Joshua M. Johnson. On report of a referee recommending the bankrupt’s discharge.
1Opinion of the Court
DICKINSON, District Judge.
This application for discharge on its special facts presents no questions of any difficulty. The case on its general facts is, however, typical.
The applicant .for discharge was adjudged a bankrupt on his own petition. He accompanies it with a schedule of debts but none of assets. To grant him a discharge is therefore to take from his creditors their property existing in the form of the legal obligation of the debtor to pay his debts. Whatever practical value this species of property may have in a particular case, the legal right is everywhere regarded as a valuable…
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