In re Wix

JOHNSON, District Judge.

This cause came on to be heard upon exceptions to the report of the special master, C. W. F. Spencer, Esq., recommending that the bankrupt be not allowed his discharge. This is a very interesting case, and I should like to go into it at length, but the pressure of work makes that impossible. An expert accountant testified that he could not ascertain the bankrupt’s financial condition from an examination of his books. The specia.1 master, in a very able and interesting report, concluded that a man was presumed to intend the natural consequences of his act, and that,…