Acme Harvesting Mach. Co. v. Bennett
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
A¡ypeal from the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Missouri; Arba S. Van Valkenburgh, Judge. In the matter of ISugenus H. Bennett, bankrupt. The Acme Harvesting Machine Company appeals from order granting the discharge.
1Opinion of the Court
COTTERAD, District Judge.
This appeal is from an order granting a discharge to the appellee. There was a reference to a master of the issues arising upon appellant’s objections, which were eventually confined to the ground that the appellee had obtained goods upon materially false statements in writing.
The appellee was the only witness at the hearing. Material discrepancies appear in the statements, as compared with his testimony, deeds, other instruments, and the schedules—two in the first statement as to incumbrances and three in the second as to real estate values, which counsel have…
2Cited by1 opinion
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